Six feared dead in California helicopter crash
Sacramento/IBNS/UNI: A helicopter carrying six people crashed in California, near Nevada border, with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department saying on Saturday that no survivors were found.
The Eurocopter EC 130 crashed near Nipton on the edge of the Mojave Desert Preserve at about 10 pm on Friday (6:00 GMT), CNN cited the Federal Aviation Administration as saying.
Multiple local and Nigerian media reported that Herbert Wigwe, a Nigerian-born chief executive of Access Holdings, as well as members of his family might have died in the crash.
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