According to reports, a Nigerian Air Force FT-7NI trainer jet has crashed in Makurdi, the capital of Benue State.
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The incident took place on Friday as it was engaged in a routine training exercise, according to a report on Channels Television.
Additionally, channels claimed that Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, the NAF’s director of public relations and information, had corroborated the remark.
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Two of the aircraft’s pilots, he claimed, made it out alive and were being watched in a military facility.
At the NAF Base Hospital in Makurdi, “both pilots are now under examination. A Board of Inquiry has been established by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Hasan Abubakar, to ascertain the primary and indirect reasons of the incident, he added.
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Details to follow.