The ill-fated chartered helicopter, marked 5NBQG and operated by Eastwind Aviation Logistics Services Limited, conveying senior officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), had eight persons aboard.
Report has it that bad weather occasioned by heavy rainfall caused the accident in which the chopper crashed into the ocean.
The chopper took off from the Port Harcourt Military Base (DNPM) en route to a NUIM ANTAN oil rig near Bonny Finima.
It went down one kilometre to its destination around 11:30 a.m. .
There were eight people on board, six of them NNPCL officials, the pilot and the flight assistant.
Three bodies were recovered by the rescue team.
Although, the identities of the bodies were not made known, the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) confirmed that the pilot on board, Captain Yakubu Dukas, who is the association’s vice chairman, had died.
