PHOTOS: Crew Members (Nigerian) survived helicopter crash

Crew members as well as passengers aboard a
chartered Bristow helicopter which crashed
Wednesday while flying from Port Harcourt to
Lagos survived the accident, the Accident
Investigations Bureau has said.
Tunji Oketunbi, the spokesperson for the Bureau
told PREMIUM TIMES on telephone that all
occupants of the craft survived the accident.
"They all survived, they all survived," the AIB
spokesperson said when contacted for updates.
Mr. Oketunbi said search and rescue were apace
and that his agency was in the process of
circulating a detailed statement about the crash.

An official of Bristow Helicopter had earlier
confirmed the incident to PREMIUM TIMES but
declined to provide details.
The official said the company was still collating
details of the incident and would make same
public at the end of the exercise.
Initial reports said about 13 passengers were on
board the craft at the time of the incident.
The identities of the affected passengers were
unknown at the time of this report.
The new crash occurred less than six months
after another helicopter belonging to the same
company crashed in Lagos.
The chopper had on August 12, 2015 plunged
into the Lagos Lagoon, killing six of the 12
persons on board.
Details later... .

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