News reaching us has confirmed that
an Akure, Ondo State bound plane, an Associated Airline, with 20 passengers
on-board has crashed.The plane crashed immediately take
off at the local wing of the airport, close to the section where JET-A1, plane
fuel is stored..
Confirmed reports have it that the plane was conveying the remains of late ex governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu to Akure along with about 25 members of his family for his burial.
According to witness, fire service officials were seen
evacuating the occupants of the plane and it is not yet clear if there is any
casualty.
However, Segun Demuren, the son of
Harold Demuren, who was the immediate former Director General of the Nigerian
Civil Aviation Authority, has tweeted his own account of the crash:
This is really tragic.
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