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Why Tolulope Arotile’s death is so painful – Richard Akinnola pays tribute
The death of Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the Kogi-born first female combat helicopter pilot in Nigeria, is a particularly sad one. Young, vibrant, with wonderful future.
Here was a young girl, who, according to the Nigeria Air Force in its tribute, led a couple of sorties against bandits and insurgents within her short period of active service.
And that is part of the mystery of life. She didn’t die in chopper crash but died yesterday in a car crash. Her case is akin to that of the Ghanaian-born Nigeria Airways Fokker-28 plane pilot. The plane crashed in November 1983, in Emene, Enugu, killing 55 passengers and crew members but the pilot survived the crash.
The pilot eventually relocated to his home country in Ghana where he later died in a car crash. He survived air crash but died in a car crash. Tolulope fought war in the air and survived but succumbed to death in a car crash. What a sad and great loss!
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