7 kiled in Kaduna Airforce helicopter crash

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(Nigeria) A Nigerian Air Force helicopter crashed into Ribadu Cantonment (Old NDA), killing seven people on board at 6.45 a.m. on Saturday.
Alhaji Musa Ilallah, the North West Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the crash in Kaduna.
``We received a report that there was a helicopter crash at the old NDA.
``We immediately reached out to the Red Cross, Civil Defense Corps, and the Kaduna State Fire Service, among others, and went for rescue.
Meanwhile, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has set up a panel to investigate circumstances surrounding the crash of Nigerian Air Force, NABF, Dornier-228 aircraft with call sign NAF030.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday by Air Commodore Dele Alonge, the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, said that the panel is headed by an Air Vice Marshal.
The statement said the chief of air staff has aborted his official trip to Port Harcourt and would visit the crash site and families of some of the deceased personnel.
It said the chief would be accompanied by the Air Officer Commanding Training Command, AVM Alikali Mamu during the visit.
According to the statement, the aircraft crashed into a house at Ribadu Cantonment, Kaduna on Saturday killing all passengers on board.
``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 on board the aircraft’’, the statement said.
It said the aircraft was Abuja bound and had taken-off at 6.45a.m. from the Kaduna Military Airfield before the mishap.
Alonge said the bodies of the passengers had been recovered while fire fighters had been mobilised to the crash site to curtail fire from spreading to buildings.

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