How Kaduna NAF Pilots Crashed While Displaying Flying Skills – Eyewitness

An eyewitness has revealed how the jet of the Nigerian Air Force crashed in Kaduna State on Tuesday.

Naija News had earlier reported that two pilots identified as Flight Lieutenants Abubakar Muhammed Alkali and Elijah Haruna Karatu lost their lives in the incident.

The development saw the NAF constitute an Accident Investigation Board to investigate the cause of the crash.

An eyewitness who spoke with Daily Trust disclosed that the pilots were displaying some very impressive flying skills when the incident occurred.

The witness said, “Though I did not know the pilots personally, I wanted to shake their hands whenever they would come down because of the exceptional display they exhibited and how I was enticed by it. I never knew it would be their last show.”

“The pilots were having a training, which caught the attention of me and many others, so immediately we came out from the break, we saw them displaying and manoeuvring the aircraft, they were heading towards the direction of the runway as if they wanted to land when we heard a loud bang.

“Tuesday’s display was a unique one because it was more of a rugged acrobatic display, but watching them, it did not happen at a time during the exercise, there was a building on the side of the runway, it is like they miscalculated and hit part of the building because the distance from where the plane crashed is not too far from the runway.”