A viation Minister says 25 passengers and seven crew were aboard; search and rescue under way A Nigerian military aircraft travelling from Benin to Lagos crashed on Monday near the Naval Base in Igbokoda, in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, with early information indicating that 32 people were on board. The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, said the aircraft carried 25 passengers and seven crew members, though he described those figures as preliminary. Keyamo disclosed this in a statement on his official X account, saying air traffic controllers alerted him that the aircraft, with tail number NGR 931, vanished from radar at about 9:13 a.m. Controllers made repeated attempts to reach the crew by radio, but none succeeded. Subsequent reports confirmed that the plane had come down close to the Naval Base in Igbokoda. Rescuers have since located the wreckage and are continuing their operation at the scene. "I regret to inform the general publ...