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The crash of NAF alpha jet and the cause for alarm. By Sat Apr 03 2021 Intelligence report gathered by the Nigerian Air Force indicates that the Alpha Jet aircraft (NAF475) that went off the radar with two crew members on board on March 31st, 2021 might have crashed. But Boko Haram terrorist group led by Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for downing this fighter jet that crashed in Konduga Local government area of Borno State. Like a general-aviation crash, a military plane or jet crash can be caused by a wide variety of factors, such as design or manufacturer defects, pilot error, n...

Islamist insurgency Boko Haram claimed the shooting down of a Nigerian Air Force fighter jet in a video seen by Reuters on Friday, two days after the aeroplane went missing in the country's northeast.

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'We hope to get our pilots alive,' Nigerian air force says, as military plane disappears from radar By Nimi Princewill, CNN enablePagination: false endIndex: (CNN) — The Nigerian air force says it has yet to establish the whereabouts of a military plane that disappeared off the radar Wednesday evening near Borno -- an insurgency troubled state in the country's northeast region. A Nigerian air force spokesman told CNN Thursday afternoon that the fighter jet had been deployed to provide air support to ground troops, who were under fire from Boko Haram fighters before radar contact was lost. ...

Share The Nigerian Air Force on Friday disclosed that intelligence report at its disposal indicated that its Alpha Jet aircraft which disappeared from the radar on Wednesday may have crashed and the whereabouts of the two pilots unknown. In a statement on Friday by its Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, the situation of the two pilots, Flight Lieutenant John Abolarinwa and Flight Lieutenant Ebiakpo Chapele, remain unknown while efforts to locate the aircratf are on. According to the statement: “Intelligence report gathered by the Nigerian Air Force (...