According to NBC, the helicopter took off from Palm Springs and was headed to Boulder City, Nevada, but “crashed into the ground” near Holloran Springs in California.
National Transportation Safety Board member Michael Graham later reported that all passengers on board the helicopter were killed. The identities of some of them were revealed on social network X by the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
She noted that Wigwe himself, as well as his wife and son, were on board the crashed helicopter. Also, according to the woman, among the dead was the former chairman of the Nigerian stock exchange NGX Group, Bimbo Ogunbanjo.
Earlier it was reported about a Bombardier Challenger 600 plane that crashed in Florida and fell right on the road.