John Charles, Makurdi
One of the aircrafts from Presidential fleet
recently handed over to the Nigerian Air
Force on Thursday tumbled after it had
successfully landed at the air force base in
Makurdi, Benue State.
Our correspondent reliably gathered from an
insider from the Air Force base that the
helicopter marked Augusta AW101
tumbled after it had successfully landed.
The source, who pleaded not to be
mentioned said, “It was not a major crash,
what happened was that the helicopter had
landed but suddenly moved up and then
tumbled .”
It was gathered that only the flight engineer
was on board and did not sustain any
serious injury.
But when contacted, the Air Force, Public
Relations Officer, Makurdi, Okon Bassey, said
he was not aware of the incident because he
was undergoing a course in Lagos. He,
however, gave our correspondent the
telephone number of his assistant.
The assistant, who simply identified himself
as Gambo when our correspondent called
him on phone, said that nothing happened at
the base.
“It is all rumour, many people have been
disturbing us concerning this thing but I can
confirm to you that nothing happen,” he
said.
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