Posted on: 04:29 Sun, 11 May 2014


Jamil Abubakar, the first son of
the Inspector General of Police
survived a plane crash yesterday
evening May 10th after the small
plane he was co-piloting lost
control and crashed in Ganla,
Niger Republic.

The plane, an IRS airline, Folker
100, with registration number
5NSIK, was returning from
maintenance abroad when it lost
contact in Ganla and crashed.
The two-crew members,
including the IG's son survived
the crash. The Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority confirmed the
crash yesterday.

IRS airline has not been in
operation for a while because it
had only one functional plane
and had wanted to fix this other
plane to commence operation.
IRS airlines is owned by Alhaji
Ishiaku Rabiu.