The Nigeria Air Force has confirmed the crash of one of the aircraft in its fleet on Saturday morning.
The confirmation was contained in a statement issued by the NAF Director of Information, Air Commodore Dele Alonge.
The aircraft, according to the statement by Alonge, crashed into a house at the Ribadu Cantonment, Kaduna.
Though no casualty was recorded on the ground, all those in the aircraft were said to have died.
Seven persons were reportedly in the aircraft.
The statement said: “Nigerian Air Force Dornier-228 aircraft, with call sign NAF030, has crashed into a house at Ribadu Cantonment, Kaduna. Though no casualty was recorded on ground, there were no survivors among the passengers onboard the aircraft. The aircraft was Abuja bound and had taken-off at about 6:45am from the Kaduna Military Airfield before the mishap. Bodies of the passengers have been recovered and fire fighters are already at the crash site to curtail fire from spreading to other buildings within the vicinity.”
Alonge said in the statement that the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has aborted his official trip to Port Harcourt, Rivers State to visit the site of the air crash and families of some of the deceased personnel in company of the Air Officer Commanding Training Command, Air Vice Marshal Alikali Mamu.
Abubakar has also set up an investigation panel headed by an Air Vice Marshal to unravel the cause of the accident with immediate effect.
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