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Nigeria mourns as authorities investigate helicopter crash that killed a major bank CEO

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By ADAM BEAM, CHINEDU ASADU and STEFANIE DAZIO
Associated Press

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a California helicopter crash that killed the CEO of one of Nigeria’s largest banks. Access Bank CEO Herbert Wigwe died along with his wife and son on Friday evening when a helicopter they were riding in went down in the Mojave Desert. Also killed was Bamofin Abimbola Ogunbanjo, former chair of NGX Group, the Nigerian stock exchange. Officials say two pilots also died. The crash happened shortly after 10 p.m. south of Interstate 15 near Halloran Springs Road. A preliminary report is expected from the NTSB within 30 days.

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