{"id":16639,"date":"2024-02-11T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wigwe-report-of-cause-of-helicopter-crash-could-take-24-months-us-authorities\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T18:04:16","slug":"wigwe-report-of-cause-of-helicopter-crash-could-take-24-months-us-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wigwe-report-of-cause-of-helicopter-crash-could-take-24-months-us-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigwe: Report of cause of Helicopter crash could take 24 months \u2014 US authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The United States National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, has disclosed that the helicopter in which Herbert Wigwe was travelling caught fire after it crashed.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Graham, one of the board members, made this known during a media briefing on the ill-fated helicopter crash on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Graham confirmed that six people, including two crew members, died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reported the deaths of the co-founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Wigwe; his wife, Chizoba; his son, Chizi; and Bimbo Ogunbanjo, a former chairman of the NGX. They all died in the helicopter crash that occurred on Friday night in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, they were going from Palm Springs Airport to Boulder City, Nevada, when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Graham, while briefing reporters, said that the tragic incident occurred about 90 minutes after the charter flight took off, adding that \u201cthe helicopter impacted the terrain south of I-15 near Halloran Springs, California,\u201d about 75 miles (120 kilometres) northeast of the city of Barstow.<\/p>\n<p>Graham said: \u201cAs far as we know, there was fire when the aircraft did contact the terrain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that witnesses said there \u201cwas rain with wintry mix\u201d when the accident occurred, adding that ongoing investigations would reveal the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, investigators are still working on finding out the exact weather at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the beginning of a long process. We will not jump to any conclusions,\u201d Graham said, warning that it could take 12 to 24 months for the full report on the investigation to be ready.<\/p>\n<p>Wigwe: Report of cause of Helicopter crash could take 24 months \u2014 US authorities<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, has disclosed that the helicopter in which Herbert Wigwe was travelling caught&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10507],"tags":[180,3731],"class_list":["post-16639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wigwe","tag-news","tag-wigwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}