A Nigerian air force plane crashed while approaching the Abuja airport runway due to engine failure on Sunday, Nigeria’s aviation minister Hadi Sirika has said.
Sirika who revealed this via his Twitter account said, “a military aircraft King Air 350 has just crashed short of our Abuja runway after reporting engine failure en route Minna.”
He gave no details on casualties but wrote: “It appears to be fatal.”
Minna is a city about 110 kilometres (68.35 miles) northwest of Abuja.
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