Officials of Nigerian Air Force, NAF, on Friday night paid a condolence visit to the family of Flt.-Lt. Taiwo Asaniyi, pilot of the ill-fated Beechcraft 350 plane that crashed in Kaduna State.
The crash killed the Chief of Army of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other officers.
Asaniyi and three other crew members also lost their lives in the crash.
Air Commodore Peter Simeon, who is the Commander of the 671 NAF base detachment, Akobo, Ibadan, led other officers to the late pilot’s residence in Ibadan to console the aged parents.
Responding on behalf of the family, Deacon Adeleke, who thanked the NAF for the early visit, pleaded for immortalisation of all the deceased.
He advised that the government should always remember the families of the deceased.
