According to preliminary assessments, severe weather conditions may have contributed to the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Herbert Wigwe, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holding Plc, as well as his wife, son, and other passengers, according to US officials on Sunday.
Michael Graham, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, stated that officials were on the scene to collect perishable evidence during a media briefing on Saturday (3 am Nigerian time, Sunday).
Witness accounts of the weather at the time of the accident point to a wintry mix and rain.
"Neither a flight data recorder nor a cockpit voice recorder were installed on the chopper. Graham added, "Those kinds of recording equipment were not necessary for this chopper to have.
Graham said there was no information available on the passengers when a question about it was raised, but without giving a time range, stated that "any names will be released through the coroner's office."
In the meantime, Wigwe and his family members' deaths were verified by Access Bank in a statement on Sunday.
The DAILY POST remembers that on Saturday night, tidings of Wigwe's passing in the California plane tragedy began to trickle in.
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