BREAKING: Helicopter with nine on board crash-lands in Lagos

BREAKING: Helicopter with nine on board crash-lands in Lagos. The crash victims

Barely six months after a Bristow Helicopter plunged into a Lagos Lagoon, at Oworonshoki, a settlement on the foot of the Third Mainland Bridge, in Lagos, August last year, killing the pilot and some other passengers, another of the company's choppers met the same fate on Wednesday.

However in this incident, said to have involved the aircraft, marked 5N BJQ, flying at 1,500 feet with nine passengers and two crew members, is reportedly without casualties, even though another report said the pilot and the crew were yet to be located.

Body of the last crashed chopper being lifted

Authorities of the company, were quoted as describing the incident as a deliberate crash-land by the pilot, in a term called "prepared ditching" after a fault was discovered in the aircraft.

-Whirlwindnews