The accident occurred on 14 Jul 2023, near the Air Force base of Makurdi. A FT-7NI trainer aircraft, which was reportedly on a routine training sortie crashed in some agricultural fields close to the town.
Over the years, many different types of fighter and other aircraft have been
inducted in the NAF. Among these the F7-NI fighter aircrafts from China were inducted in 2009. By 2018, six out of the 15 aircraft had crashed due to various reasons.
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