AIB Investigates Helicopter Crash

Personnel of the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) are presently examining the materials recovered from the OAS Eurocopter Helicopter crash site for analysis. It took at Ife-Odan, Osun state.

The Bureau has ruled out the possibility of taking the analysis abroad for test.

Its Media Relations Manager, Mr Tunji Oketunbi said that the outcome of the investigation would determine the next step to be taken by the agency.

Explaining that it is after the gathering of materials that the agency could tell the public the probable cause of the accident, Oketunbi stressed that it was too early for any personnel to speculate the probable cause of the crash.

He pointed out that AIB could not determine when the investigation would be rounded up, adding that accident investigation was not a straight jacked operation.

According to him, “we have gathered materials and we are looking at them with a view to making analysis so that we can identify the probable cause of the accident. Nobody knows the cause of the accident yet and these are the things we are looking for”.

“We are not in a hurry to investigate the cause of the accident, but the most important thing for us is to come out with standard and authentic reports on the accident and there is no need to take the materials recovered from the crash site aboard for now, but if in the cause of investigation there is a need for that, we will not hesitate to do so”, he stressed.

Oketunbi noted that AIB is communicating with the families of the bereaved and would do everything possible to release the remains of their beloved to them after the post mortem.

Meanwhile, Sabre Travel Network in line with its expansion plan has entered the South African market. The company handles most of the foreign airlines that provide reservation systems for travel agencies in Nigeria.

The company, which operates the world’s largest global distribution system for leisure and corporate travel agencies will be based in Bedfordview, Gauteng.