Unconfirmed reports indicated yesterday that the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, fighter jet declared missing by the military over Adamawa may have crashed around Gabun village near Gaanda, in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State…
According to local reports, villagers in Gabun on Sunday alerted the authorities about an aircraft wreckage believed to be that of the missing Alpha Jet belonging to the NAF.
The military authorities had announced that “an Alpha Jet (NAF 466) belonging to the Nigerian Air Force is missing around Adamawa State.
“The aircraft, with two pilots onboard, left Yola at about 10:45am on September 12, 2014 on a routine operational mission and was expected back by 12noon. Since then all efforts to establish contact with the aircraft have not yielded any positive result. “Meanwhile, searchand- rescue effort is ongoing to establish contact with the crew.”
This is the second time in less than two months that military aircraft in the ongoing military operations against Boko Haram insurgency group in the North-East has been involved in an incident.
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