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Bristow helicopter crashes into Atlantic Ocean in Lagos
Another Bristow helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in Lagos area on Wednesday morning.
The chopper, our correspondent gathered, disappeared from radar after it took off from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja.
The chopper crashed at 136.70 nautical miles from AEHA Field in Bonny Island, inward MMIA.
There are 11 people on board the helicopter at the time of the accident.
The Spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency ( NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview.
He said personnel of the Nigerian Navy and other emergency handling agencies have rescued all the passengers alive.
Farinloye said,” It is Bristow Helicopter that ditched into the high seas. Nigerian Navy and others have rescued the occupants. Nobody died. We are still trying to get the coordinates of how the chopper crashed into water.”
Officials of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) said the chopper’s debris had been recovered.
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