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NAF Intensifies Search for Missing Aircraft

by Blessing Ubani
NAF Intensifies Search for Missing Aircraft

Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said yesterday that it would let its guard down, but to continue in search of the missing fighter jet that vanished last week in Borno State. The fighter jet lost contact with radar shortly after take-off while on an interdiction mission in the northeast.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, immediately flew into Maiduguri, the Borno State capital to coordinate search and rescue operations.

It was later confirmed by the Nigerian Air Force that the missing fighter jet might have crashed in the northeast. 

A statement issued by its spokesman, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, stated an intelligence report indicating that the Alpha Jet aircraft (NAF475) went off the radar with two crew members on board on March 31, 2021, might have crashed.

The cause of the crash and the whereabouts of the pilots is still unknown.

The NAF said extensive search and rescue efforts involving NAF surveillance aircraft, Special Forces and Nigerian Army troops were in progress.

The statement affirmed that the air force was not ruling out any eventuality, but is hopeful that the crew would be found. It said the Air Force would keep the public informed of the search progress and rescue efforts until the crash site is located.

“From the day control lost radar contact with the aircraft on March 31, 2021, the NAF as a professional fighting force has been keeping members of the public abreast and updated on the missing aircraft and combined efforts of the NAF and Nigerian Army(NA) search and rescue team to locate the crashed aircraft.

“While search and rescue efforts are being sustained until the wreckage of the aircraft is found, the NAF wishes to reassure the general public that it shall be informed of any update as regards the missing aircraft,” it said.

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