“It's a South African-made plane; it is a propeller aircraft,” the NEMA Acting Coordinator for South-West Zonal Office, Ibrahim Farinloye, said.
The Nigerian Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said the plane that crashed on Tuesday in Lagos is a South African-made propeller aircraft.
“It's a South African-made plane; it is a propeller aircraft,” the NEMA Acting Coordinator for South-West Zonal Office, Ibrahim Farinloye, said.
Farinloye earlier disclosed that responders were searching for flight data recorder, cockpit recorder and Cospas-Sarsat beacon at the site of Tuesday’s helicopter crash in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
According to the International Satellite System for Search and Rescue, a Cospas-Sarsat beacon, also called a distress radio beacon or emergency beacon, is a radio transmitter that can be activated in a life-threatening emergency to summon assistance from government authorities.
“We are searching for flight data recorder, cockpit recorder and Cospas Sarsat beacon,” Farinloye said over two hours after the crash.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that there was panic in the Ikeja area of Lagos State on Tuesday as the helicopter crashed and burst into flames.
The incident occurred opposite AP fuel station, close to a branch of the United Bank for Africa in the Oba Akran area of the state capital.
It was learnt that the incident occurred around 3.30 pm.
According to the NEMA, 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," Farinloye said.