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The Cross River state government has offered a reward of 45 million naira (about US$385,000) for anyone with information on the missing plane.
Govt seeks foreign assistance to find missing plane | March 24, 2008
Govt. has asked for assistance from some foreign countries, including the US and the UK, to help finding the passenger plane, a Beechcraft 1900D operated by local charter airline Wings Aviation Limited, which went missing eight days ago during a domestic flight.
The Director of Search and Rescue at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said Nigeria has asked the countries to use their satellite systems to help find the plane.
He said NEMA had conducted a search of the entire area, where the plane was suspected to have gone down, with helicopters and sniffer dogs, without any result, hence the resort to the foreign countries.
The plane, with three crew members on aboard, was on a flight from the commercial city of Lagos to the Bebi Airstrip in South-east Cross River when it went missing.
The disappearance has been described as a national disgrace and embarrassment and the Presidency is said to have threatened aviation chiefs on the missing plane. OVER TO YOU PEOPLE.
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