Reports reaching this medium indicate that a helicopter carrying Herbert Wigwe, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, and five other people has crashed around the California-Nevada border.
No official confirmation has been made from the bank.
However, sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed to us that Herbert Wigwe, his wife and son all died in the ill-fated chopper.
Another Nigerian personality on the flight was business mogul, Abimbola Ogunbajo.
However, the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) is still investigating the crash as authorities are yet to access the crash site. It is a Eurocopter EC 130 which took off from Palmsprings.
