(Photos) NAF plane crash: 72 hours after, main wreckage yet to be recovered in Ondo

— Search intensifies for black box, 25 bodies — Pilot averts bigger disaster — Aircraft crashed 200 metres from community — Military begins sonar survey to locate submerged aircraft — Military chiefs visit crash site
By Dayo Johnson, Akure
AKURE — Seventy-two hours after the crash of a Nigerian Air Force aircraft in Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, the main body of the aircraft is yet to be recovered.

This is despite the deployment of heavy-duty amphibious excavators, known as swamp buggies, to the crash site.

Twenty-five people, including crew members, died in the crash after the aircraft, with tail number NGR 931, on a routine flight from Benin to Lagos,...