NAF PLANE CRASH: How hero pilot died saving town

•He took death to the swamp so we 
  could live — Igbokoda residents 
•Black box, voice recorder, victims missing 
  seven days after tragedy
By Dayo Johnson, Akure
It was drizzling in Igbokoda on Monday morning, October 5, 2026.
 It was the kind of quiet rain that makes fishermen stay indoors and mothers keep their children close.Then the sky screamed.
Residents did not first see the aircraft, with tail number NGR 931, carrying 32 people, comprising 25 passengers and seven crew members, on a routine flight from Benin to Lagos. They heard it. A tortured, rattling roar, like metal begging for mercy.
“It sounded like the engine was coughing blood,” one fisherman told me at t...