NAF helicopter makes emergency landing on Benue farmland after anti-kidnap operation

A Nigerian Air Force, NAF, chopper has made a “precautionary landing” connected a farmland successful Benue State aft completing a adjacent aerial enactment ngo for crushed troops operating against suspected kidnappers.

The incidental occurred successful the Utur Tse-Igboji assemblage of Makurdi, wherever eyewitnesses reported seeing the subject craft onshore connected farmland.

According to the NAF, the chopper had been progressive successful an cognition targeting transgression elements successful Ogbadigbo Local Government Area, adjacent to the Enugu-Benue boundary.

In a connection issued connected Wednesday, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Ehimen Ejodame, said the cognition successfully disrupted the activities of the suspected kidnappers portion assisting troops advancing connected the ground.

Ejodame explained that the chopper encountered nary exigency but landed arsenic a information measurement aft completing its assignment.

“Following the palmy completion of the mission, the pilot, connected instrumentality to base, exercised his nonrecreational discretion to execute a precautionary landing astir 10 nautical miles from the airfield,” the connection reads.

“This is successful accordance with established operational and information procedures pursuing combat missions.

“The chopper has returned to base.”

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