Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Th said its Agusta 109 Light Utility Helicopter suffered a mishap land labor a liaison mission inward the North East.
Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, the Director of Public Relations as well as Information, NAF Headquarters, said this inward a disputation made available to newsmen in Abuja.
Adesanya stated that the helicopter’s target was to farther get upwards synergy betwixt Nigerian Army as well as NAF inward the ongoing counter-insurgency operations inward the North-East.
He noted that the incidence, which occurred on Thursday, July 6, was equally a resultant of
airborne technical fault.
He added that “the experienced NAF pilots, however, successfully ditched the helicopter into a puddle of H2O to minimise impairment as well as loss of lives.
“Consequently, at that topographic point were neither injuries nor loss of lives to anyone on board or on ground.”
According to him, NAF ascendency has forthwith directed the constitution of a board of research to arrive at upwards one's necessitate heed the exact crusade of the incidence. (NAN)