The Nigerian Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday, August 1, revealed that the plane that crashed in Lagos was a South African-made propeller aircraft.
NEMA’s acting coordinator for South-West Zonal Office, Ibrahim Farinloye, said: “It’s a South African-made plane; it is a propeller aircraft.”
Farinloye also disclosed that the agency is still searching for the aircraft’s flight data recorder, cockpit recorder, and Cospas-Sarsat beacon at the crash site in Lagos.
His words: “We are searching for flight data recorder, cockpit recorder, and Cospas Sarsat beacon.”
Speaking earlier on the degree of fatality of the crash, he said:
“There were two people on board. The control tower confirmed that there were only two people on board, not four. Three craters on the spot created by impacts on the ground.”