A helicopter transporting Nigerian entrepreneur, Herbert Wigwe has crashed, killing him as well as about five others in California, United States.
Wigwe is the CEO of Access Holdings and the founder of Wigwe University, located in oil-rich Rivers State, South South Nigeria.
Sources said the helicopter was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night.
The US government confirmed all on board dead.
Wigwe was reportedly on board a chopper with his wife, son and three other passengers when the unfortunate incident happened at California.
They were reportedly heading for Las Vegas to watch Super Bowl, the annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States.
The New York Times has confirmed the incident but kept the identities of the passengers.
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A reliable source however told our reporter that the bank chief was on board the ill-fated aircraft.
“A helicopter carrying six people crashed on Friday night near the California-Nevada border, and no survivors have been located as of Saturday morning.”
“The Federal Aviation Administration said that the Eurocopter EC130 helicopter crashed at around 10 p.m. local time near Nipton, Calif., an unincorporated community about 60 miles south of Las Vegas in eastern San Bernardino County.
Officials at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department were made aware of the downed aircraft at 10:12 p.m. local time, Mara Rodriguez, a public information officer with the department, said in a statement, adding that the scene of the crash was determined to be east of Interstate 15, near Halloran Springs Road,” New York Times said in its report.
During his last days on earth, he invested massively in his university project, granting interviews and pushing out adverts.
Described as a $500 million eponymous university in his hometown in Rivers State, Wigwe had said the University would offer undergraduate courses in management, science and engineering, information technology, and creative arts.
