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Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Updated: Plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroun has gone missing

Linda Ikeji reports that an air craft has been declared missing...

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A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon has gone missing. The plane, owned by US company, Global Aviation, took off from Kano Airport around 6pm yesterday Monday June 23rd and was billed to make a stop over at Doula Cameroon before continuing to Gabon to arrive at 11pm but it never arrived at Doula, Cameroonian Aviation authorities have said. Only an American pilot was on-board.

The Gabon Aviation authorities say the last contact they had with the plane was when it was in Mongo which is a 2-hour flight from the Cameroonian economic capital. Search & Rescue operation has so far not yielded any result but the search operation still continues

Update:

Mr Ibrahim Abdulsalam, the Managing Director of NAMA, told newsmen in Lagos that the incident was not within the jurisdiction of the agency.

He noted that the aircraft had been handed over to the Cameroon airspace authority before the incident occurred within their airspace.

“It did not occur within the Nigerian airspace, so there is nothing we can do about it.

“We have handed over the aircraft to the Cameroon airspace,” he explained.

The aircraft was learnt to be owned by a U.S. company, Global Aviation.

It took off from Kano airport at about 6 p.m. on Monday (June 23) en route Libreville in Gabon.

The aircraft was scheduled to arrive at 11 p.m. same day, after a stop-over in Douala, Cameroon. (NAN)

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