A helicopter carrying Access Bank CEO Herbert Wigwe and five others crashes in California, resulting in fatalities. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
A chopper transporting the CEO of Access Bank and Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe, and about five others aboard has crashed in California , United States. The chopper, identified as a Eurocopter EC 130, was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed last Friday night near Nipton, between Nevada and California . The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in a statement, yesterday, confirmed that all onboard are dead.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board said they were investigating the cause of the crash at the time of filing this report. Wigwe started his professional career with Coopers & Lybrand Associates, an international firm of Chartered Accountants
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