A helicopter, on Tuesday, crash-landed and caught fire in the Ikeja district of Lagos State, causing chaos.
The event happened in the state capital’s Oba Akran neighbourhood across from an AP petrol station and adjacent to a United Bank for Africa office.
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The incident occurred around 3.30pm.
According to the National Emergency Management Agency, the aircraft belongs to Airfirst Hospitality and Tour Ltd with Registration number – 5NCCQ
“There were two people on board. The control tower confirmed that there were only two people on board, not four. Three craters on the spot created by impacts on the ground,” Ibrahim Farinloye of NEMA said.
First responders from NEMA, LASEMA and investigators from the NSIB have arrived the scene.
Tuesday’s accident occurred three years after a helicopter operated by Quorom Aviation crashed in the Opebi area of Lagos in August 2020.
The copter dropped from the sky around 12 noon and crashed into a residential building on Salvation Road in the Opebi area. The three persons onboard the copter all died.
