Nigeria Army tipped off on location of crashed jet

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshall Ademola Amosu, said on Monday in Abuja that the force had credible information on location of the Alpha fighter jet which crashed on Friday in embattled North-Eastern part of Nigeria. The jet with two pilots was on a mission when it disappeared from the radar between Yola and Maiduguri on Friday and a search and rescue operation had been dispatched to locate and rescue the pilots.
He told state House correspondents after he met with Vice President Namadi Sambo, that inclement weather in the area had hampered search operations, but that citizens around the area of operation provided useful information on its possible location.

“One of our Alpha Jets went on routine operation in the North East and they lost contact with the control towers and that made us to immediately initiate search,� Amosu said.
“The weather has not been helpful as we have deployed all our surveillance capability, the citizens have been very, very helpful and we have gotten good information from them,” he added.
The jet joined in the raids of hideouts of insurgents following the increasing menace of Boko Haram.