One of the officers killed when a military plane crashed in Kaduna State was Abubakar Alkali, a Flight Lieutenant in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).
The training plane had two pilots on board when the tragedy happened on Tuesday evening, according to Anaedoonline.ng.
While on a training trip, the aircraft, thought to be a Super Mushak, crashed within the NAF facility.
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Alkali was identified as one of the pilots onboard the ill-fated plane in a statement signed by Alhaji Sule Dauda.
The dead had already been buried according to Islamic customs at the NAF Central Mosque in Kaduna, according to Dauda.
It was learnt that the late Alkali recently received an award as the best international cadet from the Royal Air Force in Britain.
The latest development comes a few months after a NAF aircraft crashed in Kaduna.
The incident, which occurred in May 2021, involved a Beechcraft 350, and the aircraft crashed around the Kaduna international airport.
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Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff, and 10 other military officers, who were on board when the plane crashed, were killed.
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