One person died and three others were wounded in a helicopter crash near the capital of Nigeria’s south-eastern Delta state, said a National Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) official on Friday.
NCAA spokesperson Samuel Adurogboye said the aircraft belongs to the privately owned Nigerian company Oasis, based in the country’s commercial capital Lagos.
He gave no further details on the time and circumstances of the crash, the number of people on board or the identity of the dead and hurt, but said Nigeria’s newly appointed aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode was expected to give more details later on Friday.
While Nigeria does not have the worst air safety record in Africa, about 1 200 people have died in more than 40 plane crashes since 1991 and hundreds have perished in crashes in the past thirteen months alone.