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DomPerignon:
It wasn't an assassination but an air accident due to very bad weather, an inexperienced and young crew who had to divert to the civilian air strip in Kaduna from their intended NAF air field.

On getting to Kaduna, bad weather forced the crew to attempt a landing in the neighbouring Kaduna civilian airport.

The ATC in Kaduna had closed as the airport was operating only daylight due to terrorist attack that occurred a few months prior.

There was no ATC clearance as ATC had shut down by 6pm and there was no communication with the crew and ATC to ascertain the wind field on landing.

The crew landed in a cross wind field which flipped one of the wings of the aircraft and had it flip and crash on the tarmac.

The aircraft had departed Abuja with a full tank of fuel and was meant to convey the COAS to Kano the next morning for an occasion there and return him back to Abuja.

The cause of that crash were bad weather and an inexperienced crew.

The COAS was shelduled to have taken off to Kaduna earlier on that same day but due to his tight schedule ,the flight was postponed later in the evening.

Its not known if the crew were briefed adequately on the rapidly detiorating weather at their destination or if they (young officers in their early 30s) were afraid to tell the COAS of the need to delay or cancel the flight.

There were no traces of any explosive material on the wreckage.

ChiefOloye:
After reading this enormous atrocious and weighty evil perpetrated under a Fulani militia Government, if you like, still advocate for another Fulani militia Government to displace a more moderate Southern presidency, because you hate Tinubu and his Yoruba tribe. (Na ur eyes go still pill).

nairalanda1:
Because the man is here making assumptions without any proof or offering any proof.

And when we ask them to give us proof, that's when we hear stories about how 'they won't allow us to bring proof' or 'they won't allow us to do proper investigation'

I don learn my lesson for many consipracy theories. Sometimes the simplest answer is the right answer.

LIke the time people were shouting Garang died in helicopter crash. One thing about helicopters, they are delicate things. Any small dust can foul up the mechanism.


PLus if we assume the man died in explosion, why not then assume that every plane crash in Nigeria was caused by conspiracy?

rapwizzy:
Instead of the federal government to invite this retired soldier to know who "That Man" is... The won't do that.

DomPerignon:
The chain of events clearly showed that this was an avoidable accident if the crew had taken precautionary flight briefings and either suggested to the COAS to postpone or delay the flight.

Military pilots have a totally different orientation in operations from their civilian counterparts and are expected to carry out a mission no.matter the challenges

The 70s in the US marked the era of highest civilian air crashes and all were linked to pilot braggado with all these pilots being military trained veterans of the US air force, navy and Marines.

The US FAA had to review training of pilots henceforth to be more precautionary and safety bound than what it takes to be a military pilot.

The young and inexperienced crew of that ill fated flight were piloting a civilian twin turboprop aircraft and operating within civilian airspace control but being military officers, the trip that day was tested as a military exercise and mission to be accomplished.

How do you expect a young air force officer to tell a whole General of the Army that the mission can not go on due to bad weather?

Even if they had told the General would have insisted they continue the mission because even the General will not want to appear afraid of bad weather.

So make una rest.

Dogalmighty17:
I hope this man is not in Nigeria at the moment. I mentioned this last week. The day president Tinubu decides to order a comprehensive audit of Nigerian armed forces finances as regards the war against terror, 2 things will happen.

1. Nationwide bombings, kidnappings and outright massacre of communities
2. The bloodiest coup in the history of this country will happen.

If we want to know why the war against Boko Haram has lasted this long, a quick look at the defence budget and associated expenditure will tell us. Follow the money.

But that will never happen.

goody234:
This is absolutely spot on!! I also suspect the pilots were afraid to tell the COAS that they couldn't fly because of the bad weather ...Experienced pilots would have been able to counter the instructions given to them, young officers should be able to explain that it is safety first before anything else

OLAADEGBU:
SaharaReporters

Ali-Keffi, who once served as General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division and headed the covert Operation Service Wide (OSW), alleged that Attahiru’s death occurred against a backdrop of internal hostility, operational sabotage, and high-level corruption within the military.

Fujiyama:
^^^
Ok.

But the brasshat in this piece says the accident report has not been made public. Why should we take your word and not that of an official investigation? (By the way, this isn't to say that an official investigation is always true or accurate...)

Making it public would be a good place to start.

OLAADEGBU:
SaharaReporters

Ali-Keffi, who once served as General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division and headed the covert Operation Service Wide (OSW), alleged that Attahiru’s death occurred against a backdrop of internal hostility, operational sabotage, and high-level corruption within the military.

DomPerignon:
It wasn't an assassination but an air accident due to very bad weather, an inexperienced and young crew who had to divert to the civilian air strip in Kaduna from their intended NAF air field.

On getting to Kaduna, bad weather forced the crew to attempt a landing in the neighbouring Kaduna civilian airport.

The ATC in Kaduna had closed as the airport was operating only daylight due to terrorist attack that occurred a few months prior.

There was no ATC clearance as ATC had shut down by 6pm and there was no communication with the crew and ATC to ascertain the wind field on landing.

The crew landed in a cross wind field which flipped one of the wings of the aircraft and had it flip and crash on the tarmac.

The aircraft had departed Abuja with a full tank of fuel and was meant to convey the COAS to Kano the next morning for an occasion there and return him back to Abuja.

The cause of that crash were bad weather and an inexperienced crew.

The COAS was shelduled to have taken off to Kaduna earlier on that same day but due to his tight schedule ,the flight was postponed later in the evening.

Its not known if the crew were briefed adequately on the rapidly detiorating weather at their destination or if they (young officers in their early 30s) were afraid to tell the COAS of the need to delay or cancel the flight.

There were no traces of any explosive material on the wreckage.

iwaeda:
No one has seen the report of the crash, a friend of my family lost someone Dear in that flight. Where is Buhari today?

DomPerignon:
It wasn't an assassination but an air accident due to very bad weather, an inexperienced and young crew who had to divert to the civilian air strip in Kaduna from their intended NAF air field.

On getting to Kaduna, bad weather forced the crew to attempt a landing in the neighbouring Kaduna civilian airport.

The ATC in Kaduna had closed as the airport was operating only daylight due to terrorist attack that occurred a few months prior.

There was no ATC clearance as ATC had shut down by 6pm and there was no communication with the crew and ATC to ascertain the wind field on landing.

The crew landed in a cross wind field which flipped one of the wings of the aircraft and had it flip and crash on the tarmac.

The aircraft had departed Abuja with a full tank of fuel and was meant to convey the COAS to Kano the next morning for an occasion there and return him back to Abuja.

The cause of that crash were bad weather and an inexperienced crew.

The COAS was shelduled to have taken off to Kaduna earlier on that same day but due to his tight schedule ,the flight was postponed later in the evening.

Its not known if the crew were briefed adequately on the rapidly detiorating weather at their destination or if they (young officers in their early 30s) were afraid to tell the COAS of the need to delay or cancel the flight.

There were no traces of any explosive material on the wreckage.

femmoy:
Stop saying what you don't know mr long epistle.

anythingoes23:
If you truly read and absorbed what the retired major general said, you’ll realize that his claims are at least 90% true, if not 100%. For example, he described staying with the corpses in the morgue for hours to analyze how the incident unfolded, noting that those in the passenger seats were blown out while two pilots in the cockpit remained strapped to their seats with no signs of an explosion. So why would the cockpit not explode while the passenger side did, unless something suspicious occurred? With that in mind, do you have CCTV footage or any other video evidence to support this? By the way, my younger brother’s friend was one of the two pilots who died in the crash; he was due to be married a month before his death. As one that has military background, I can relate with what Retired Major said.

DomPerignon:
The wing of the turboprop is where the fuel tanks are.

As I wrote prior, the aircraft encountered strong cross winds which flipped the aircraft and from there burst into flames

The central sitting area especially where the wings are , is the most dangerous place to be sitter on an aircraft.

The best sitting position being at the back.

Also, note that the aircraft disintegrated and split in several sections on impact with the tarmac.

The front end housing the crew might have disengaged from the main fuselage and that's why the cabin crew did not suffer much burns but died of blunt trauma .

Also, do you think military guys will all wear seatbelts ? This isn't a civilian flight by the way.

Ttalk:
And some southern follow follow are saying that US should not intervene that they are coming to steal our resources.

Now they can see the high level compromise within the security and political circle that suggest Nigeria can never win the war against terrorist on their own strength.

Albertone:
Why will trained pilots be afraid to tell the COAS that flying in that weather is risky?
What will the COAS do to them? Demote them? Discharge them? Jail them?

Quick Question:
Have you ever seen a plane crash where all the passengers onboard were flung out of the plane to the floor? Where the crash left no crata on the ground?

DomPerignon:
It wasn't an assassination but an air accident due to very bad weather, an inexperienced and young crew who had to divert to the civilian air strip in Kaduna from their intended NAF air field.

On getting to Kaduna, bad weather forced the crew to attempt a landing in the neighbouring Kaduna civilian airport.

The ATC in Kaduna had closed as the airport was operating only daylight due to terrorist attack that occurred a few months prior.

There was no ATC clearance as ATC had shut down by 6pm and there was no communication with the crew and ATC to ascertain the wind field on landing.

The crew landed in a cross wind field which flipped one of the wings of the aircraft and had it flip and crash on the tarmac.

The aircraft had departed Abuja with a full tank of fuel and was meant to convey the COAS to Kano the next morning for an occasion there and return him back to Abuja.

The cause of that crash were bad weather and an inexperienced crew.

The COAS was shelduled to have taken off to Kaduna earlier on that same day but due to his tight schedule ,the flight was postponed later in the evening.

Its not known if the crew were briefed adequately on the rapidly detiorating weather at their destination or if they (young officers in their early 30s) were afraid to tell the COAS of the need to delay or cancel the flight.

There were no traces of any explosive material on the wreckage.

goody234:
If you are a trained military pilot then you won't ask me that question?...domperignon on here answered it fully.

Regarding there being no crater on the crash site you do know that the plane was almost at ground level as it was in landing phase ...Explain to me why there would be a crater when it was a low ground impact ...please don't get into this hole of conspiracy theories it will only let you dig deeper and find nothing !!

anythingoes23:
Those pilots were Air Force personnel, not Army, and they were trained to be fearless, especially one who was set to marry a month after his death. He was a courageous officer, well known and respected. He was my relative.

ChiefOloye:
After reading this enormous atrocious and weighty evil perpetrated under a Fulani militia Government, if you like, still advocate for another Fulani militia Government to displace a more moderate Southern presidency, because you hate Tinubu and his Yoruba tribe. (Na ur eyes go still peel).
The best President Donald Trump can do for Southern Nigeria 🇳🇬 Christians is to help divide this country. Nigeria may never get better. Just imagine, they've been fighting Bokoharam since 2010, even the Nigerian/Biafra civil war didn't last this long. I also pity and pour spit on any boy from the South that will be enlisted into the Nigerian Military 🪖. Instead, they should go and join agbero, it will be better for them.