A helicopter crash in California last Friday, which resulted in the deaths of Herbert Wigwe, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, and his family, could have been prevented, according to Robert Clifford, an aviation lawyer from the United States.
Clifford made this statement in a press release on the company’s website on Wednesday. The crash claimed the lives of Wigwe, his wife Doreen, his son Chizi, and Abimola Ogunbanjo, a former Group Chairman of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
The accident occurred in a border town between California and Nevada, involving an Airbus Helicopter EC130B4.
Clifford, who is the Founder and Senior Partner of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, made these remarks during an ongoing investigation of the crash by the US National Transportation Safety Board.
The statement read in part, “The crash of a helicopter that killed six people, including a top Nigerian banker and his family, along the California-Nevada border Saturday night immediately strikes one as a tragedy that may have been avoided given the known weather conditions at that time.”
He also expressed hope that the ongoing investigations by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) would determine whether the crash could have been avoided or not.
