– One of the Presidential aircraft which was recently handed over to the Nigerian Air Force, Agusta AW 101, a medium-lift helicopter specially designed for military operations, has crashed at the Nigerian Air Force base,Makurdi–
According to a reports, the aircraft crashed due to poor training of crew members saddled to man the operations of the aircraft– Damages to the aircraft were significant but no life was lost to the crash
The crash is coming two months after President Muhammadu Buhari handed over two over the two ballistics defence capable aircraft from the Presidential fleet to the Nigerian Air ForceAccording to a report byTheNewGuru.com, the jet crashed due to poor training of crew members saddled to man the operations of the aircraft.After the handover, the aircraft was repainted from the initial white and green to camouflage.A source told the news website that damages to the jet were significant but no life was lost to the crash.“No fatality but significant damage to aircraft considering the fact that they hardly do insurance in the military. The flight engineer was injured.”
The aircraft, Agusta AW101, which is a large armoured helicopter cost about $21million each (N10.5billion) making it 130% more expensive than the average aircraft of its class.But the Nigerian Air Force, PRO, Group Captain DeleFamuyiwa, has denied the report that one of the aircraftcrashed.“It was not a crash. I wouldn’t call it a crash because itjust fell on the ground in Makurdi.”

source: https://www.naij.com/1060317-just-in-presidential-aircraft-crashes-in-makurdi.

lol

"It just fell on the ground"