We won’t investigate Ondo NAF crash without military invitation – NSIB

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has said it volition not independently analyse the Nigerian Air Force craft that crashed successful Igbokoda, Ondo State, unless the subject formally invites it to instrumentality part.

The NSIB said successful a connection connected Monday that the incidental progressive a subject craft and was truthful extracurricular its ineligible responsibility.

“This occurrence involves a subject aircraft,” the bureau said, explaining that subject aviation accidents are handled by the subject nether the NSIB Establishment Act, 2022, and planetary practice.

The aircraft, an ATR-42 operated by the Nigerian Air Force, crashed connected Monday portion reportedly carrying retired a regular ngo from Benin to Lagos.

The Nigerian Air Force confirmed the clang and began hunt and rescue operations with applicable authorities and exigency agencies.

The NSIB clarified that its determination was not a refusal to assistance but a designation of the military’s ineligible work to analyse specified incidents.

“The NSIB does not analyse subject accidents unless formally invit...