UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE, NOT HELICOPTER, CRASHED IN KADUNA – NAF
The Nigerian Air Force says its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) popularly known as drone, crash in Kaduna on Monday morning and not its helicopter as earlier reported.
The Director, Public Relations and Information the Air Force, Air Vice Marshal, Edward Gabkwet, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
He said that contrary to reports on social media as well as on a handful of traditional media outlets that a NAF helicopter had crashed in Kaduna earlier today, July 1 no helicopter crash occurred actually.
Gabkwet said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle experienced a mishap after take-off for a mission, at a location near Rumji Village and about 15 Kilometres from Base and that since it is an unmanned vehicle, there were no casualties on board or on ground.
He said that preliminary investigation had since commenced to ascertain what might have caused the mishap and assured Nigerians that the minor setback would not, in anyway, impinge on all ongoing operations.
