Lagos Helicopter Crash: Accident Report Not Yet Out, As Bristow Denies Pilots

The Bristow helicopter crash that occurred in Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday, August 12, killed 10 passengers and while the two crew members who survived seem to have been clouded in mystery.

File photo of Bristow helicopters crash on August 12, 2015 . Photo credit: The Nation

The helicopter which was flying in from Port-Harcourt crashed into the Oworosoki end of the Lagos lagoon few minutes before it landed. 

According to preliminary reports from Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), ‘’the preliminary flight recorder data indicated that at 1000ft and 120Kts, the helicopter experienced sudden pitch up, and left roll with varying attitude of yaw, roll and pitch for 12 seconds until it impacted water at about 1531hrs.’’

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The report however made it clear that the cause of the accident has not been fully determined, as the investigation is still ongoing.

Meanwhile, the sister of one of the pilots, Captain Joseph “Jay” Wyatt of Oklahoma,  has lamented on social micro-blogging site, Twitter about the whole scenario.

Samantha Wyatt, tweeting with the handle, @kimchisaywhat, posted series of tweets, accusing the management of Bristow Helicopters (owners of the crashed helicopter), of denying her brother as an their employee.

See her tweets below:

Since August, #Bristow has told us that my brother wasn’t “technically” their employee, but instead “technically” an employee of #Guersney.

— Samantha Wyatt (@KimchiSayWhat) December 11, 2015

Still waiting on the final accident investigation report from the #NAIB of the #lagoshelicoptercrash from August.

— Samantha Wyatt (@KimchiSayWhat) December 11, 2015

I sure hope #Nigerian #NAIB IS allowing all necessary agencies, including the @NTSB, to assist in discovering cause of #lagoshelicoptercrash

— Samantha Wyatt (@KimchiSayWhat) December 11, 2015

Captain Wyatt started his aviation career in 2005 and had been flying in Nigeria since 2009.

The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) had earlier revealed it planed to find the reason of the crashed Bristow helicopter.

The bureau said that it will not hire foreign experts to extract information from the black box because its accident investigators had been well skilled by a Canadian firm supplier of the laboratory equipment on how to download content from any crashed aircraft black boxes.

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