A Nigeria Airforce aircraft Donnier 228 having took off this early morning crashed at the Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna old site killing about 7 people on board including the pilot.
The incident occurred some few minutes after the Aircraft enroute Abuja took off from the old (Dana) Airport, Kaduna at about 06:47am today.
NEMA officials alongside other rescue workers coordinated and carried out search and rescue operations to evacuate the victims.
The aircraft crashed into a residential house at NDA quarters. No casualty recorded in the house.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar also visited the scene few hours after the crash.
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