Hunters found missing plane – C’River
By Everest Amaefule and Oyetunji Abioye
Published: Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008
Hunters found the wreckage of the Beachcraft 1900D plane in Busi, Obalinku Local Government Area, the Cross River State Government has said.

The finding, exclusively reported by THE PUNCH on Tuesday, puts to rest the controversy over the fate of the light aircraft which disappeared from the nation’s airspace on March 15, 2008.

A statement by Mr. Patrick Ugbe, the Chief Press Secretary/Special Assistant on Media to Governor Liyel Imoke, said the hunters recovered the international passport of the pilot, Captain Augustine Egbedi among other items from the aircraft.

forensic inestigation must be carried out by a foreign expert

bawomolo:

y must the expert be foreign

tundysho:

Locals ve failed in the first attempt to seach the plane

tundysho:

Yeye people.They ve gone to manipulate one old plane and dump it at the site.The family of the crew should be visited to confirm they are actually missing,forensic inestigation must be carried out by a foreign expert to confirm that its the actual plane that got missing that was found and the puported remains of the pilot they found at the alleged crash site

Ibori has a hand in all these

that is local technology at work.
I propose that the hunter should be employed by the aviation ministry

Jakumo:

Since no HUMAN remains were reported to have been found in the wreckage, here is my theory :

The owner of the plane was paying for it installmentally, and had been falling behind on payments such that bank repossession of the aircraft was becoming a concern to the debt-ridden owner.

In preparation for the big scam, all crew members on the fateful flight were instructed to take out life-insurance policies that would keep their families happy for the few years the crew would have to remain in hiding, while a substantial insurance policy was similarly taken out on the plane.

On the day of the flight, the crew boarded the plane wearing parachutes.  Airborne and flying over the thickest jungle they could find, the pilot flipped a switch to dump most of the remaining fuel in the tanks, and then he set the auto-pilot for the craft to fly straight and level until it ran out of fuel.   With that done, the crew jumped out and made safe paraschute landings in the border area jungles between Nigeria and the Cameroons, where they used a hand-held satellite phone to communicate with their welcoming party on the ground.

The plane crashed but did not burn since there was no fuel left in the tanks, and crew identification papers deliberately left in the cockpit served as red herrings to divert attention away from the fact that the crew were in fact very much alive and in contact with their families who by then were already enjoying the huge life-insurance payouts, while putting on a sad face for visiting press photographers.   The aircraft owner also cashed in his own insurance bonanza on the lost plane, and they all lived happily ever after.

My theory can easily be substantiated and conclusively proved if [b]Nigeria1@ would now be kind enough to show us few dozen satellite pictures of copulating camels in the Iraqi desert.[/b]

uchetobi:

mehn whatever! its naija afterall

carmelily:

The lead hunter should be made the minister of aviation. it wouldn't be a first in nigeria.