NAF Aircraft crashes in Kaduna, Nigerian Experienced Pilot Dies
Fri, Aug 25, 2017 | By publisher
Security
A NIGERIAN Air Force, NAF, air beetle aircraft has crashed in Kaduna, while on a mission on Friday morning.
The only person on board the aircraft, one of the NAF’s experienced instructor pilots, whose name was not given, died during the mishap.
The cause of the incident is unknown but Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, chief of the air staff, CAS, has immediately directed the constitution of a board of inquiry to determine the immediate and remote causes of the crash.
The CAS and the entire NAF family commiserate with the relatives of the late instructor pilot, a statement by Olatokumbo Adesanya, air commodore and director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force, said.
– Aug 24, 2017 @ 09:42 GMT
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