NAF Ondo crash: Large aircraft Wreckage emerges from swamp [VIDEO]

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Days aft the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, chopper clang successful Ondo State, ample sections of the wreckage are being recovered from a riverine and swampy country wherever the craft went down.

Teams comprising Navy divers, Air Force unit and exigency responders person been moving with specialised equipment, including swamp buggies and side-scan sonar, to find and retrieve the wreckage and remains.

A video shared from the betterment cognition showed ample sections of the craft that person been brought ashore, with officials, subject unit and section residents gathered astir the recovered debris.

DAILY POST had earlier reported that connected October 5, 2026, a Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 aircraft, with process fig NAF 931/NGR 931, crashed successful a swampy, riverine country adjacent the Naval Base successful Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State.

The craft was connected a regular formation from Benin City, Edo State, to Lagos erstwhile aerial postulation controllers mislaid interaction with it astatine astir 9:13 a.m.

It crashed successful hard mangrove and swamp terrain other the naval base.

All 25 radical connected board, comprising 5 unit members and 20 passengers, mostly subject personnel, died successful the crash.

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