Tears and emotions flowed on Thursday as the remains of Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile were laid to rest at the military cemetery on Airport Road , Abuja.
An ambulance belonging to the Nigerian Air Force with registration number AF 442, had brought in the body .
The Chief of Air Staff , Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique ; Kogi State Governor , Yahaya Bello and his wife ; the House Committee Chairman on Air Force , Bala Ib ’ n Nalla and the family members of the deceased were there to pay their last respects .
The country was thrown into mourning last week Tuesday when the Nigerian Air Force first announced that the country’ s first female combat helicopter pilot died from a road traffic accident at the NAF base in Kaduna State .
The air force said the female officer sustained head injuries from the accident when she was “ inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force secondary school classmate while trying to greet her . ”
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