NAMA Confirms Plane Flying Nigeria To Gabon Is Missing

An aircraft flying from Nigeria to Gabon through Cameroon has disappeared, according to Cameroon aviation authorities. The four-seater plane is owned by Global Aviation, a United States company.
It took off from Kano in northern Nigeria at 1800 hours on Monday en route Libreville in Gabon, where it was scheduled to arrive at 2300 hours, after a stopover in Douala, Cameroon.

But the station said that the plane, with only the American pilot on board, did not make it to Douala, adding that the last contact the plane had with the control tower was in Mongo, two hours from Douala.
Currently, a search and rescue team are combing some spots in search of the pilot.
However, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said the “missing” light aircraft was not in the country’s airspace when the incident occurred.
According to Mr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam, the managing director of NAMA, the incident was not within the jurisdiction of the agency. He said the aircraft had been handed over to the Cameroon airspace authority before the incident occurred within their airspace.
“It did not occur within the Nigerian airspace, so there is nothing we can do about it. We have handed over the aircraft to the Cameroon airspace,” he explained.