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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.

The manner in which you refer to their ages and call them inexperienced is disrespectful.
There are US Airforce veteran pilots who have crashed despite numerous years of flying.

An eye witness noted that the plane was very close to ground level. How come a crash close enough to ground level that it didn’t leave crater will be fatal enough to kill everyone one on board, cut off limbs, and fling out roasted passengers?

Even the recent crash in Niger state that is devastating did not have such effects.

sammiewrite:
The likes of Gen. Keffi and Attahiru are few of the last patriots who served in that state-backed cartel they call Nigerian Army. Hence, I wasn't surprised to see words like "godson." Most of the other senior officers loyalty are to the powerful politicians and senior serving and retired military officers who got them into NDA and have since being ensuring their promotion and protection, and not to Nigeria. The glory days of Nigerian Army were in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s when the sons of nobody got into the NDA and as such they pledged their full loyalty to Nigeria and Nigerians. Today? We have politicised everything. We fvcked around. Now we are finding out

The 1980s and 1990s were NOT the "glory days" because the corruption rot in the military really began to set in from the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida years and degenerated further in the highly IRRESPONSIBLE and corrupt Abacha Military dictatorship of the 1990s. I have family members (in the United States military) and Nigeria who served in the different arms of the military from the 1960s right into the 2000s. My mother's older sister for instance was a senior Army officer in the medical corp. She read medicine in the United Kingdom and served on the battle frontlines during the 2 years and 6 months (30 months) Nigerian Civil War from July 1967 to January 1970. Her son (my cousin) who was a senior Army officer with the medical corp was ALSO very diligent. The mediocrity and vast corruption began to really set in from the mid-1980s time frame with nepotism and the insidious quota system.

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.

Probably what happened.

Albertone:
If a crash occurs at almost ground level, it won’t be fatal enough to cut limbs and fling roasted passengers out of the plane without a survivor.

The airforce jet crash that happened in Niger state this month, go check the wreckage yet, no one died.

Your thinking just dey vex me!

Yours is even worse, it came in at a fast speed and was accelerating to go back up ...FULL POWER!

Why wont there be flung roasted passengers and cut limbs its physics !! stop using the small brain matter you have to over think things

Vex all you want square pegs don't fit round holes it defies logic !!

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.

Just meshiornu - This year alone in the US, there have been more military aircarft crash than Nigeria's in the last 20 years - Was theres also a compromise? They should sort theirs first becoming coming to solve ours. More than 250 logged.


https://www.newsweek.com/plane-crashes-2025-list-updated-2024-compared-2063819

How Many Crashes Have There Been in 2025 Thus Far?
The NTSB logged 250 aviation incidents and accidents across the United States from January 1 to April 24, 2025.

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DomPerignon:
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Air Accident Reports are painfully slow in reaching a conclusion and even if they had established one since the crash occurred in a civilian airfield, the military are the ones to receive it.

Normally , civilian regulations do not apply to military aircrafts .

NCAA does not regulate the military and same may go for the Acciden Investigation Buerue.

When last have you heard the AIB issue a comprehensive report on a military air incidence?

Note we have had several military planes crashing and NSIB nor NCAA ever comments on it.

The only reason AIB carried out a preliminary investigation on this crash was because it occurred in a civilian airfield and when AIB found out the cause was not due to non compliance by civilian operators on ground or a malfunctioning navigation system and narrowed it down to the crew, they are not obliged to issue a report but to inform the Air Force on it and in this case an inexperienced crew that attempted a landing in the wake of a severe storm in a civilian airport that had closed for the day.

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If the report of an air accident investigation is shrouded in secrecy with no civilian oversight then the results are predictable - and we end up with what we have now. Speculation. Conjecture. Rumours. etc.

Two years ago, a military helicopter (MI-171) involved in casualty evacuation crashed in Chukuba, Shiroro local government area of Niger state. There were several military casualties. Then NAF spokesman Edward Gwabyet did not speak on the cause of the crash although he promised an investigation, the results of which would be communicated to Nigerians. Nothing has been heard so far.

Where is the accountability?

nairalanda1:
While the army is incompetent and all.......the simple reason is the man died in a plane crash, not explosion on plane.

We beleive in such a theory, the same way people believe that JFK was killed by a conspiracy, instead of the simple explanation that he was killed by one man, because if a whole COAS can die in plane crash, with all the security and service, what does that mean for ordinary people like us.? Best to believe 'they did it'

You can believe that 'they did it because Shekau' (the story about shekau in maiduguri...it is also very possible that Shekau moved out on his own without hearing from anyone in the army self...we tend to think that boko is made up of dull people)...or you can assume it was simply a plane crash.

At the same time you can believe, as I do, that the army is not handling the fight against boko well, because they are not. This fight requires specialists in assymetric warfare, not conventional warfare. Armies have always struggled when the enemy is fighting assymetrically. (It took the british over 15 years to subdue the Edo people after 1897. And the edo people used extensive assymetric warfare. Go and verify).

Lol.. That's not true. It didn't take the Brits that long to subdue the Benin empire which they conquered in a very swift military campaign that lasted roughly two weeks. They bombarded Benin forcing the Oba to flee and leave the city disserted . Oba Ovonramwen was later captured and sent to exile in Calabar where he died in 1914.

The people who fought the British for more than two decades using assymetrical warfare were the Igbos not the Benin.

Go and read history my friend.

The Benin empire was the easiest for them to conquer, even the Sokoto caliphate fought them for a couple of years. The Yorubas folded after Britain took Lagos, reinstalled their stooge Akintola and smashed the Ijebu resistance within a year or so.

[quote author=Ttalk post=137754694]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.

While I had been so sure of high level of complicity, I'll completely gobsmacked at how much the terrorists had taken over the government. 🙆‍♀️😰😱

[quote author=Omoawoke post=137756083]Of course he was assassinated because Boko haram is in Nigeria government!

When GEJ cried out, y'all called him AND A SISSY !!😰😱

Albertone:
If a crash occurs at almost ground level, it won’t be fatal enough to cut limbs and fling roasted passengers out of the plane without a survivor.

The airforce jet crash that happened in Niger state this month, go check the wreckage yet, no one died.

Your thinking just dey vex me!

Aircrafts are not designed to survive impacts.

They are made of light composite material with a light aluminium frame.

A Controlled Flight into Terrain or CFiT is what is referee to as a crash.

Majority of air accident crashes occurs during low level CFIT aka during landings because this is when the aircraft can crash on a surface.

Also the aircraft on final descent was still be operating on a relative high speed as all landings are a controlled stall .

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[quote author=zoomzoom post=137761617][/quote]Fact remains that GEJ was not a good president

He’s not that a bad man but he wasn’t a good leader… so many lapses.

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.

why can't U mention their name are U afraid of them...

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.

What hyp0cr!tical and tr!cky game are you trying to play here?

Was it not your people that brought the fulanis into power in 2015 out of sheer selfishness, against the wishes of other Southerners??

⁠”The late Gen. Attahiru, as I was made later understand, had ordered an audit (forensic) of funds and equipment immediately he assumed command of the Nigerian Army as COAS. “He was due to act on the report on Monday, May 24, 2021. He died in the suspicious plane mishap on May 21, 2021,” he said

dem shut the man.

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.

Hail Bu...rantanshi !

May the souls of the departed rest well and may God help us as a nation 🙏

frog12:
dem shut the man.

Buruntai also ordered an investigation on Ihejerika's as COAS.

Alex Badeh was also prosecuted for corruption and I remember he or another high rannking Service Chief was killed by bandits in Nassarawa.

The military brass are highly suspicious and competitive of each other .

He was assassinated due to some comment he made.

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.

Nah, that whole story is a myth that keeps getting repeated.

The 1970s were NOT the worst decade for US air crashes. The 1950s and early 1960s had far more fatal accidents (both in raw numbers and especially per flight). Safety was already getting better by the ’70s.

The big accidents of the ’70s (American 191, PSA 182, United 173, Eastern 401, etc.) were NOT caused by “cocky ex-military pilots braggado.” Most involved things like wind shear encounters nobody understood yet, poor CRM (junior crew afraid to speak up), ATC errors, or CFIT in bad weather.

Yes, a lot of airline pilots back then were ex-military (WWII/Korea/Vietnam vets), but the NTSB never identified “military bravado” as a systemic cause. The real problem was the old authoritarian “captain is God” cockpit culture that actually predated the military influx and affected civilian-trained pilots too.

The FAA and airlines didn’t “rein in reckless military pilots.” What actually happened was the birth of Crew Resource Management (CRM) starting in 1979–1980, which flattened hierarchy, encouraged co-pilots and flight engineers to speak up, and emphasized teamwork. Ironically, some of the earliest CRM ideas came from the Navy and NASA, not despite the military but with its help.

With proper CRM that is in place, a young officer can speak up to a "whole" General if and when the conditions of a flight become a safety risk.

DomPerignon:
Aircrafts are not designed to survive impacts.

They are made of light composite material with a light aluminium frame.

A Controlled Flight into Terrain or CFiT is what is referee to as a crash.

Majority of air accident crashes occurs during low level CFIT aka during landings because this is when the aircraft can crash on a surface.

Also the aircraft on final descent was still be operating on a relative high speed as all landings are a controlled stall .

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Whada:
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AI slop worshipper.

Of course I just knew your earlier response to my other post couldn't have come from you.

As long as they were all northerners, we don't care,
They are heartless to the core

Most likely Buratai

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.

I don't hate Yoruba but Tinubu must lose, in order for Nigeria to be great

Exactly my thought as well it is buratai

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. [b]I also pity and pour spit on any boy from the South that will be enlisted into the Nigerian Military 🪖. [/b]Instead, they should go and join agbero, it will be better for them.

That will be the dumbest move. That would be total surrender. No well meaning southern youth should listen to your advice to handover the armed forces to northerners. We, middle belters are still in the armed forces today because we recognized that the alternative is suicidal.

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.

you go explain tire

sweerychick:
Hmm I just pray and hope they'll not target you for elimination

DSS will soon invite him for questioning and anything may happen. In a case like this that a rtd general leaked. After a couple of weeks that he's released by the DSS, he died.

djseanjohn77:
Just meshiornu - This year alone in the US, there have been more military aircarft crash than Nigeria's in the last 20 years - Was theres also a compromise? They should sort theirs first becoming coming to solve ours. More than 250 logged.


https://www.newsweek.com/plane-crashes-2025-list-updated-2024-compared-2063819

How Many Crashes Have There Been in 2025 Thus Far?
The NTSB logged 250 aviation incidents and accidents across the United States from January 1 to April 24, 2025.

Stop comparing apples and oranges. New York alone has more airports than the whole of Nigeria, by multiple times. Not to mention the number of military aircraft alone, not even civilian (over 10, 000 if not more) and thousands of training flights that happen EACH AND EVERY Day within the US. Yet you are comparing mumu statistics with Nigeria. Such cluelessness should be criminalized.

I wish PBAT can appoint this rtrd general as NSA and redeploy Ribadu to the ministry of police affairs .