Exactly three months after the police helicopter Bell 429 with the registration number: 5N-MDA of the Nigeria Police crashed in Bauchi State, Accident Investigation Bureau – Nigeria (AIB-N) has released its preliminary report on the cause of the accident.
Apart from this, AIB-N also released preliminary reports on three other serious incidents involving United Nigeria Airlines (UNA), Max Air and Air Peace aircraft.
AIB-N in a report released in Abuja yesterday said that the police’s helicopter, which departed the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, (NAIA), Abuja to Maiduguri on a Visual Flight Rules (VFR) flight plan with a planned technical stop at Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Airport, Bauchi crashed at 19:47hrs in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC).
