Lagos Crash Landed Helicopter Does Not Belong To Us— Air Peace

The the management of Air Peace has distanced itself from an aircraft which crash landed at Oba Akran Ikeja area of Lagos State on Tuesday.

The Nigerian Voice recalls that there was pandemonium at Lagos State this afternoon after the light single engine aircraft, turbo 5N-CCQ crashed on a major road and burst into flames.

The incident occurred at about 1:41pm local time, adjacent to AP Fillinr̃g Station, and United Bank For Africa, Oba Akran.

A a source from air control tower disclosed that the aircraft operated by Air First Hospital and tour crashed from 1500 feet after leaving the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA.

The source also disclosed that the aircraft was coming in for an emergency landing but hit the light pole after making the circuit.

It was also learnt that the aircraft had five hours fuel endurance.

While reacting, the Air Peace spokesperson, Stanley Oliseh, disassociated the airline with the company, saying “Our attention has been drawn to a tweet misinforming the public that the helicopter that crashed around Oba Akran, Ikeja, today, was an Air Peace aircraft.

“This is totally untrue and misleading as we do not have helicopters and none of our aircraft was involved in any crash. Air Peace operates Boeing 777s, Embraer 195-E2s, ERJ-145s, Dornier 328, Airbus 320s and Boeing 737s- no helicopter in our fleet.

“It is emphatically important people get their facts right before publishing. Members of the public are urged to disregard the tweet as it clearly misrepresents the Air Peace brand.”

However, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said: “We have activated our disaster response plan to the above incident which occurred around 1600hrs.

“A helicopter containing four persons including the pilot crash landed on in front of the United Bank of Africa branch on the road.

“All four casualties have been retrieved from the aircraft alive. They have been transferred to hospital for further care.”