Crew members and passengers aboard a
chartered Bristow helicopter which crashed Wednesday while flying from Port
Harcourt to Lagos survived the accident.
Spokesperson to Accident Investigations
Bureau Tunji Oketunbi told journalist that all occupants of the craft survived
the accident.
Oketunbi said search and rescue was rapid
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 Journalist 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.
The new crash occurred less than six
months after another helicopter belonging to the same company on August 12,
2015 plunged into the Lagos Lagoon, killing six of the twelve persons on board.
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