Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has on Saturday, visited the scene of the helicopter crash 24 hours after the incident.
The governor, who met with the residence of both buildings where the crash occurred, rejoiced with them for not recording any casualty.
It would be recalled that two of the three crew members were confirmed dead while one was severely injured.
Shortly after the crash, the Lagos State Emergency Agency (LASEMA) confirmed that two persons died in the accident, with the third person taken to the Lagos State Teaching Hospital for treatment, but it was confirmed by the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) later on Friday that the third person died in the hospital.
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Sanwo-Olu during his visit stated that he was out of town when the incident occurred, and he made it a point of duty to visit the residents before another day passes.
The Bell 206 helicopter, belonging to Quorum Aviation, was traveling in from Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital with two crew members and a passenger before it crashed into a residential building in the Opebi area of Lagos at mid-day on Friday.
The copter with Nationality Registration Marks 5N-BQW operated by Quorum Aviation was about two minutes to reach its destination at Murtala Muhammed Airport when it crashed into a fence separating two houses at 16A, Salvation Road.
Speaking in a telephone interview with ThePunch on Saturday morning, AIB General Manager, Public Affairs, Tunji Oketumbi, said;
It is not every aircraft that carries black boxes, especially helicopters, some of them have but some of them don’t have based on the manufacturer’s design. But in this case, the Bell 206-B3 helicopter did not carry any black box.
A black box is just to show us the way and shorten the duration of investigation and narrow the process but we can still do investigation without it.
Cockpit voice recorders document the conversation of the pilots but if we don’t have that, we still have the other components of the helicopter like the engine which will help in our investigation.
Oketumbi added that a preliminary report on the possible cause of the crash would be released but urged the general public not to assume the cause of the accident until the report is released.
