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BREAKING: Nigerian Air Force Jet Crashes In Kaduna, Pilots Dead

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Nigerian Air Force Jet has crashed in Kaduna killing the pilots.

iexclusivenews reports that an Air Force Jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has crashed in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria.

Details of the incident are still vague. However sources told Daily Trust that the pilots of the ill-fated plane were murdered in the incident.

Which occurred less than a year after key military officers, including former Chief of Army Staff General Ibrahim Attahiru, were slain in a similar occurrence

iexclusivenews Nigerian reports that the development comes 11 months after a NAF plane crashed in Kaduna.

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The Beechcraft 350 was involved in the incident, which occurred in May 2021, and the plane crashed near Kaduna International Airport.

The Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, and ten other military officers on board were killed when the plane crashed.

Attahiru was said to be on his way to Kaduna to attend an army recruit passing-out parade.

Following the incident, members of the minority caucus in the House of Representatives urged the Federal Government, led by President

Muhammadu Buhari, to conduct a “system-wide investigation” into such incidents involving military aircraft in Nigeria.