{"id":63425,"date":"2022-04-20T18:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash"},"modified":"2022-04-20T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:53:34","slug":"naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash","title":{"rendered":"NAF to investigate cause of aircraft crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday said it would conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of its Super Mushshak trainer aircraft crash that happened on Tuesday at NAF Base, Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, paid a visit to the two pilots\u2019 families, friends, and colleagues who lost their lives in the tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>The state constituted an Accident Investigation Board upon receiving the sad news of the crash to determine the immediate and remote causes.<\/p>\n<p>The CAS assured the officers, airmen, and airwomen of 401 Flying Training School (FTS ), Kaduna, that all measures would be implemented to avert similar occurrence in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unfortunate incident of trainer aircraft crash is yet again a tragic reminder of the perilous nature of the military flying profession and the risks NAF pilots continually take daily to secure Nigeria\u2019s territorial integrity,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday said it would conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of its Super Mushshak trainer aircraft crash that happened on Tuesday at NAF Base, Kaduna. The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, said this in a statement on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,898,254],"class_list":["post-63425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-naf","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NAF to investigate cause of aircraft crash - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday said it would conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of its Super Mus ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NAF to investigate cause of aircraft crash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday said it would conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of its Super Mus ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-20T17:17:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-20T18:53:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_5-62605699036ac.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1120\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NAF to investigate cause of aircraft crash\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-20T17:17:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-20T18:53:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_5-62605699036ac.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"NAF\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-to-investigate-cause-of-aircraft-crash\",\"name\":\"NAF to investigate cause of aircraft crash - 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