The Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, has attributed the helicopter crash involving Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to “brownout.”
Recall that a charter helicopter conveying the Vice President to the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign rally on February 2, in Kogi State had crash landed.
In a preliminary report of the helicopter accident released on Wednesday, the Commissioner, AIB, Mr. Akin Olateru, said though the investigation was still ongoing, among other causal factors, the crew lost visual contact with the ground at landing due to a “brownout.”
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Brownout, he explained is caused by landing in a dry, sandy environment.
He said; “Caverton Helicopters Limited did not conduct site survey of the landing field prior to the flight and did not carry out safety and risk assessment”
