The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) says it did not recover any flight data recorder from the site of where an helicopter crashed on Friday, September 29, 2020, at Opebi, Lagos.
This was made known in a preliminary investigation report by the AIB, four days after crash that claimed the life of three persons, including the pilot and two passengers.
The AIB spokesman, TUNJI OKETUMBI, confirmed in a statement that the crashed Bell 206 helicopter was not fitted with a flight data recorder.
OKETUMBI said the crashed aircraft did not require a flight data recorder because of its capacity of five seats, as against the standard ten seats.
Meanwhile; work has started at the residential compounds where a helicopter crashed last Friday on Salvation Street in Opebi area of Lagos State.
This comes twenty-four hours after Governor BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU visited the scene and promised to rebuild the damaged structures.
Governor SANWO-OLU visited the site in the company with the Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, OMOTAYO BAMGBOSE-MARTINS.
The General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, FEMI OKE-OSANYITOLU, conducted a post-disaster assessment of the crash site.