Officials of British International School Lagos have demanded a N11.7 million ($100,000) from a Ghanaian-based helicopter charter service firm, which accidentally landed in the school premises last Friday. However, the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren, who confirmed the incident, said that the matter had been resolved. He said hat the release of the aircraft by the school was the only-outstanding issue. ‘’Yes, it happened. The helicopter landed in a wrong place, the school is holding to it after the State Security Service (SSS), and the Nigerian Civil aviation Authority (NCAA) cleared the chopper. Everything is being resolved.’’

  A member of the board of Governors of the school, Segun Oniru, declined comment on the accident for lack of details. ‘’I do not want to comment on what I do not have details of,’’ he said. The helicopter, belonging to City Link Aviation in Ghana and flown by Captain William Iyoho, was to take Nigerian musical, Sasha from Cadbury to University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Shop rite, when he discovered that there was construction work going on in the area and decided to land in the school.

  Iyoho was said to have discovered an open field by Shop rite and landed. While waiting for the musician, he was approached by two security guards, who said he had landed on a private property and should leave. But as he was about to take off again, the principal of the school stopped him, claiming that NCAA, SSS and the police have been informed and had to check the aircraft before it could be cleared. At 3.00pm, an assistant director of the SSS arrived at the scene, inspected the aircraft, and advised the pilot to come with them to their office in Shangisha and make a statement since the school had reported the landing. When he returned having received permission from the NCA to take off, the helicopter was refused to fly by some members of school’s board, who demanded $100,000 from the pilot.

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