JUST IN- Presidential Aircraft Handed Over to Air Force Crashes

One of the Presidential aircraft which was recently handed over to the Nigerian Air Force, Agusta AW 101, a medium-lift helicopter specially designed for military operations, has crashed at the Nigerian Air Force base, Makurdi.

According to a reports, the aircraft crashed due to poor training of crew members saddled to man the operations of the aircraft.

Damages to the aircraft were significant but no life was lost to the crash

But the Nigerian Air Force, PRO, Group Captain Dele Famuyiwa, has denied the report that one of the aircraft crashed. “It was not a crash. I wouldn’t call it a crash because it just fell on the ground in Makurdi.”

“I can say maybe it was an incident. You know accident is a higher degree of incidence. It was just an occurrence that did not take any life or equipment. Cars can malfunction and the same thing with any machine.”

He said the crash was not as a result of low training and skill of crew member noting that the same crew had managed the aircraft at the presidency