Garrett Smith
Earlier this week, a helicopter caught fire and crashed in California while en route to the Super Bowl, raising questions about the identities of the passengers and the cause of the accident.
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Herbert Wigwe, CEO of Access Bank, and five others were on board when the helicopter crashed shortly after 10 p.m. His death was confirmed by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Bamofin Abimbola Ogunbanjo, former chair of NGX Group, the Nigerian stock exchange, was also killed.
At a news conference Saturday night, Michael Graham of the National Transportation Safety Board official confirmed that six people died in the crash.
Graham said he did not have information about the helicopter’s crew, which included a pilot and a safety pilot. The aircraft did not have a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder and was not required to have them, he added.
https://abc7.com/helicopter-crash-san-bernardino-county-mojave-desert-nigerian/14408339/
The six individuals who died in a helicopter crash in San Bernardino County, California, have been identified as Nigerian bank CEO Herbert Wigwe, his wife, and their son.
In addition to the Wigwe family, another prominent Nigerian banker, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, was also killed in the crash.
