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Nigerian Peace Keeper Chopper Crash Kills 12


What: Nigerian Police Special Task Force Bell 412EP en route to to Abuja
Where: Jenta Mangoro, Nigeria
When: March 14, 2012, 11:00 a.m.
Who: 7 fatalities aboard, 5 ground fatalities
Why: While on a mission to monitor a crisis situation, the chopper crashed. The crash also killed 5 on the ground in the vicinity of a satellite market and a Government Secondary School along Rukuba Road. Reports say that the wreckage landed inside a residence. A nine year old girl in the house was injured. The owner of the house, Mali Waziri, was at work at the time of the accident.

Witnesses say that the chopper made strange noises before it lost height and crashed.

The mission was described as “surveillance duty in hot spot.”

Haruna John, recently Deputy Inspector General of Police, died in the crash, as well as his orderly and other members of the peace team. ACP Garba Yelwa -Pilot; CSP Alexander Pwol-Ja, Co-Pilot and Sergeant Sonatian Shirunam-Orderly were also fatalities.

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