7 people are feared dead in an air crash involving an aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force on Saturday, August 29, 2015.
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According
to multiple reports, the aircraft took off at the Nigeria Air Force
base in Kaduna and crashed into the nearby Ribadu cantonment shortly
after take-off.
Premium Times reports that there
were three passengers and four crew members who were on a training
flight on board and was heading to Abuja before it crashed.
Pictures from the crash site
The cause of the crash remained unclear, but officials say they are suspecting engine failure.
Spokesperson for the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, who confirmed the incident said the aircraft crashed into a house.
In
a statement from Alonge, 'A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Dornier-228
aircraft, with call sign NAF030, has crashed into a house at Ribadu
Cantonment, Kaduna. Though no casualty was recorded on ground, there
were no survivors among the passengers onboard the aircraft.
Crash site in Kaduna
'The aircraft was
Abuja bound and had taken-off at about 6:45am from the Kaduna Military
Airfield before the mishap. Bodies of the passengers have been recovered
and fire fighters are already at the crash site to curtail fire from
spreading to other buildings within the vicinity.
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'Meanwhile,
the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar has
aborted his official trip to Port Harcourt to visit the site of the air
crash and families of some of the deceased personnel in company of the
Air Officer Commanding Training Command, Air Vice Marshal Alikali Mamu.
'The
CAS has also set up an investigation panel headed by an Air Vice
Marshal to unravel the cause of the accident with immediate effect,' the
statement reads in full.
This is coming barely
two weeks after a Bristow Helicopter flying from an oil rig in Escravos,
Delta State, with two crew members and ten passengers, crashed into the
Lagos lagoon.
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