NIGERIAN
AIR FORCE DORNIER-228 AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN KADUNA
1. 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. 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.
2. 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.
3. You are please requested to publish this
information in your mass media for the awareness of the general public. Thank
you for your usual support and cooperation.
DELE
ALONGE
Air
Commodore
Director
of Public Relations & Information
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