BREAKING: No survivor located as helicopter carrying Wigwe, wife, son, Abimbola Ogunbajo crashes in US
Herbert Wigwe, the group chief executive officer of Access Holdings Plc, is dead.
The top banker was involved in a helicopter crash in the United States, on Friday, TheCable reports.
Wigwe, his wife and son were in the helicopter when it crashed in California near the Nevada border.
Abimbola Ogunbanjo, the group chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group) was also in the ill-fated chopper.
New York Times reported that it was unclear where the helicopter departed from and where it was headed.
The Eurocopter EC 130 crashed near Nipton, the outer reaches of the Mojave Desert Preserve, east of the 15 Freeway, around 10 p.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration announced.
“The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate,” the agency said.
No survivors have been located, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.
The helicopter is registered to a Burbank-area tour company called Orbic Air, NBC reported.
