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FLASH: Access Bank Founder, Wigwe, Wife, Son, Others Die In Chopper Crash

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A chopper conveying the CEO of Access Holdings, Mr. Herbert Wigwe, his wife, son and 3 others has crashed in California.

According to reports monitored by VAM, no one survived the crash.

Sources said the chopper was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night.

The US government has also confirmed all on board dead.

“No survivors were located,” according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

It was further gathered that the Eurocopter EC 130 crashed near Nipton on the edge of the Mojave Desert Preserve at about 10 p.m. The crash site was east of the 15 Freeway near Halloran Springs Road.

The helicopter is registered to a Burbank-based tour company called Orbic Air.

Details about a cause of the crash were not immediately available.

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