The author of this piece is not an accomplished writer and knows less than ZERO about aircraft and aviation.
When the AIB releases a formal report regarding the 'cause of a fatal airplane crash' - one would think that cause would be quoted in the body of the story. But no...irrelevant 'gibberish' was recited with no relationship to the actual CAUSE.
Flying at night, flying under VFR regulations, inadequate oversight by the CAA, not being type rated in that airframe...and NONE of the other anecdotal comments...can be the actual description of the events leading up to the crash.
Obviously, the plane impacted the ground..and did ALL the occupants die? Why did the airplane impact the ground? Was it inverted? Did the pilot lose control? Did it run out of fuel? Was the plane overweigh? Was someone - other than the pilot - at the controls when it crashed?
The entire story - as written - is pure nonsense. The piece was poorly written, significant details were SKIPPED, other 'irrelevant' inclusions of OTHER crash investigations detracted from the headline - and it left numerous 'unanswered' questions in the readers' mind.
To be sure - the people who staff the AIB - are NOT the most capable, most analytical nor most educated crash investigators. There are no such individuals anywhere in Nigeria. The AIB is not capable of determining the FACTUAL cause of an airplane crash. They don't have the tools, the intellect nor the authority to achieve purely objective and complete crash data.
Apparently, no one will ever know what happened to the Caravan.
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