Pan-African financial group, Access Corporation, owners of Access Bank Plc, have finally confirmed the death of its Chief Operating Officer, Herbert Wigwe, who reportedly died alongside his wife, son and the former Group Chairman of the Nigeria Stock Exchange and the Chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX),
Abimbola Ogunbanjo, in a helicopter crash in the United States.
According to Michael Graham, an executive of the US National Transportation Safety Board, the chartered Airbus EC130 helicopter was flying from Palm Springs, California, to Boulder City, Nevada, when it crashed in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border late Friday night.
The aircraft, which was operated by California-based charter company Orbic Air, took off around 8:45 p.m. PT and crashed just after 10 p.m. near Interstate 15 in Halloran Springs, California, Graham said.
