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Indonesian soldier found alive two weeks after helicopter crash

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A soldier has been found alive two weeks after an Indonesian army helicopter he was travelling in crashed, killing three people, the military said on Friday.

 

The helicopter went down in a ravine in northern Indonesia on November 24 while carrying supplies to military posts near the border with Malaysia.

 

Armed forces spokesperson, Sabrar Fadhilah, said Yohannes Saputra was found on Thursday in a nearby village with injuries to his arms, waist and legs.

 

“He was extremely weak because he had not eaten for days,” he said.

 

Local media reported that Saputra made his way to a farm where he stayed in a hut overnight and ate sugar before being found by villagers.

 

The helicopter’s pilot was found alive three days after the crash, while the other three soldiers were dead.

Nigerian Pilot Begins Solo Flight Around the World

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Air Djibouti, managed by Cardiff Aviation, on Monday said that its pilot, Ademilola Odujinrin, was on a mission to become the first African pilot in history to fly solo around the world.

The Chief Executive Officer of Air Djibouti, Mario Fulgoni, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja.

Fulgoni stated that the pilot had on October 14 embarked on the second leg of his historic journey in a Cirrus aircraft from North Weald airfield in the UK.

He noted: “Having already completed a transatlantic crossing from Washington D.C. in the light single-propeller aircraft, the Nigerian aviator is now heading to Malta.

“He will then head on to Djibouti, where he will fly as a commercial pilot for the national flag carrier.

“From there, Odujinrin will continue around the rest of the world, through India and Australia, and intends to set a further aviation milestone with the fastest U.S. coast-to-coast flight in a single-prop aircraft.”

According to Fulgoni, the flight is part of ‘Project Transcend’, a foundation aimed at inspiring young people to achieve their goals, regardless of their personal circumstances.

The airline boss then quoted Odujinrin as saying “fewer than 115 people have completed a solo circumnavigation of the globe by air, and it has been my dream since my youth to join them.

“I hope to set a world first and inspire a generation of people in Africa and beyond.”

Pilot Dies During American Airlines Flight

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The pilot of an American Airlines passenger jet died during a flight from Phoenix to Boston on Monday, an airline official said.

The official did not specify the cause of death but said it was from “illness.”

The flight, an A320 with 147 passengers and five crew members on board, was flying from Phoenix to Boston when the pilot became ill. It was diverted to Syracuse, New York. The co-pilot landed the flight safely shortly after 7 a.m. ET, the airline said.

AIB Secures Audio Recordings Of Conversation Between Pilot, ATC Of Crashed Bristow Helicopter

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The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) monday confirmed that it had retrieved all necessary documents, recording and fuel samples pertaining to the ill-fated Bristow-operated S-76 helicopter which, last Wednesday, crashed into the Lagoon at the Oworonshoki area of Lagos with six fatalities out of 12 persons board.

According to the spokesman of AIB, Tunji Oketunbi, the Bureau has collected files from the airline, Bristow, that detailed the helicopter’s history, files from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on the profile and maintenance history of the aircraft and files on the crew members and the audio recording between the Air Traffic Control (ATC) and the pilots’ conversation before the crash.

Oketunbi said: “We have files on the airline, crew members, aircraft; we have retrieved all their files, maintenance manual of the particular helicopter, fuel sample of the fuel in the aircraft and the records of the conversation between the pilots and the Air Traffic Controllers. NCAA has the files on the crew because it licensed them. Every pilot and every cabin crew has files in NCAA.”

In addition, AIB will interview those who dispatched the aircraft to know the airworthiness of the helicopter before it took off for the ill-fated flight, the survivors of the crash, including the engineers in Bristow and those in NCAA that certified the aircraft airworthy.

Oketunbi said that it is the basic thing to do to collect fuel sample of the aircraft involved in accident to know whether it contributed to the crash, adding that so far, the airline was cooperating with the Bureau in its investigation, but noted that by law, the airline must cooperate with AIB.

“We also have the prerogative by law to forcefully impound documents and recordings and other things that are necessary if the airline is not cooperating. We can break into the offices of the company and take whatever we need in the investigation, but the company is cooperating,” Oketunbi noted.

He confirmed that all the materials collected would help the Bureau carry out comprehensive investigation into the crash as it contained a selection of actual audio clips of conversations between ATC facilities and crew members of the aircraft before the accident, adding that the sizes of each file in kilobytes are located next to the ‘Download’ link.

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Hilarious Photo: Basketmouth Responds To Davido’s Graduation News

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Lol the ace comedian also received the news with surprise

The news of Davido graduating with first class just gave me hope that I can become an Astronaut, Architect, Lawyer and a brain surgeon at the same time. Congrats bro.

Davido has since refuted the reports. He graduated with a second class degree in music..

24-yr-old American Pilot Steals Plane, Disappears Over Pacific Ocean (Photo)

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A California flight instructor’s puzzling disappearance continues to baffle investigators 11 days after he stole a plane and vanished over the Pacific Ocean.

“It’s a mystery, and it will continue to be until something pops,” Palo Alto police Sgt. Brian Philip told the Daily News.

Pilot William McAdams was last seen on May 8 at an airport in Palo Alto. Surveillance video showed the 24-year-old between 1 and 2 a.m. before he slipped off with his employer’s Cessna G1000 Skyhawk.

A faint radar blip registered later about 70 miles off the California coast, but it wasn’t strong enough to pinpoint a location, NY Daily News reports.

And then he was gone — literally off the radar. He left no note, and police have turned up nothing as they stalk his social media accounts, cellphone records and bank accounts for any sign of activity.

“There’s not enough for us to even know where to search,” Philip said.

McAdams was arrested in April on serious charges in Florida. He pleaded not guilty to aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery and was released on $16,000 bail on April 27.

McAdams is due back in court on June 2, if anyone can find him.

Omotola’s Husband Leaves, She Cries on Social Media

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Ace Nigerian actress, Omotola Jalade took to her instagram to express sadness over her pilot husbands departure back to work. She posted his photo and captioned that the holidays are over and her husband is off to work, probably leaving her alone with the kids.

The picture shows her husband in his pilot uniform and looking from her caption, she is really going to miss him.

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