Airforce Jet Missing In Adamawa With 2 Pilots Aboard

An Alpha Jet, with registration number NAF 466, belonging to the Nigerian Air Force, has been declared missing around Adamawa State.
Information from the Defence Headquarters in Abuja today said that the aircraft, with two pilots onboard, left Yola at about 10:45am on 12 September 2014 on a routine operational mission and was expected back by 12:00 noon the same day.
The military authorities said that all efforts to establish contact with the aircraft since it took off from the base have not yielded any positive result.
Search and rescue effort is said to be presently ongoing to establish contact with the crew.

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