“CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe and 4 others. The chopper crashed onto Interstate 75 near Naples around 3:15 p.m. ET, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (sic),” reads a post shared on February 10, 2024.
Shared more than 200 times, the post also claimed the aircraft collided with a vehicle during the crash.
The post includes a photo of Wigwe as well as 19 seconds of footage showing the burning wreckage of an aircraft near a highway while a helicopter hovers above.
Other X accounts shared the same video and another version of it (here and here). The clip also circulated on Facebook (here and here).
Wigwe, CEO of Nigeria’s Access Holdings group, died when a helicopter he was in crashed in Nipton, a community in San Bernardino county in California on February 9.
The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said all six people on board the flight, including two crew members, were killed (archived here).
US media reported that Wigwe’s wife, son and Abimbola Ogunbanjoa, a former chair of Nigerian Exchange Group, were also among the victims (archived here).
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