AIB begins investigation on helicopter crash in Lagos

The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), the investigating commission in charge of all aviation-related accidents and incidents in Nigeria, has begun an investigation to detect the cause of a helicopter crash in the Opebi area of Lagos State.

AIB General Manager, Public Affairs, Tunji Oketumbi, made this known to newsmen in a telephone conversation shortly after the crash on Friday afternoon.

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“Our investigators are at the scene of the accident and we have commenced investigation,” Oketumbi told The Punch

He added that the Bureau would issue a formal report on the accident, in no distant time.

Recall Daily Times Nigeria reported that a helicopter crashed into a residential building on No. 16 Salvation Road in Opebi, Lagos.

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While the general manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, in a statement said,two persons died in the crash while one person  has been rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

Oke-Osanyintolu said, “The agency received distress calls concerning a privately operated helicopter that crashed into 16A Salvation Road, Opebi, Ikeja and immediately activated the emergency response plan.

“The helicopter was carrying three people, one is in the intensive care unit at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, while the other two were killed on impact and their bodies have been deposited in a mortuary. We are on top of challenges, especially crowd control. The operation is ongoing and updates will follow.”