{"id":583,"date":"2026-10-06T16:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=583"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:03:06","slug":"nigerian-military-aircraft-crash-kills-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIAN MILITARY AIRCRAFT CRASH KILLS 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Nigerian Air Force aircraft has crashed in Ondo State, killing all 25 people on board.<br>The ATR-42 aircraft was travelling from Benin City towards Lagos when it disappeared from radar. The wreckage was later found near Igbokoda, close to a naval facility. The aircraft had five crew members and 20 passengers on board.<br>President Bola Tinubu expressed condolences to the victims&#8217; families and declared three days of national mourning. He also ordered a full investigation to establish what caused the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1016\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183202_ChatGPT-1024x1016.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183202_ChatGPT-1024x1016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183202_ChatGPT-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183202_ChatGPT-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183202_ChatGPT-768x762.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261006-183202_ChatGPT.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian Air Force aircraft has crashed in Ondo State, killing all 25 people on board.The ATR-42 aircraft was travelling from Benin City towards Lagos when it disappeared from radar. The wreckage was later found near Igbokoda, close to a naval facility. The aircraft had five crew members and 20 passengers on board.President Bola Tinubu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}