Following the incident, a team of Airforce personnel from the Nigerian Airforce Air Training Centre and 401 Flying School were said to have cordoned off the scene to secure the area for emergency rescue operations and also investigate the cause of the crash.
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The terrorists in Niger state claimed responsibility for shooting down the NAF MI-171 Helicopter, which was on evacuation mission.
ASHENEWS reports that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said that incidences of fatalities, mishaps, and crashes were inevitable in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations.
Facts have emerged that the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) helicopter that crashed in Chukuba village of Shiroro local government area of Niger state, was nit a fighter jet but an evacuation helicopter, which was on a mission to convey injured troops to the Military Hospital in Kaduna.