Images of a Florida plane crash site are circulating, purporting to show that Access Bank CEO “Herbert Wigwe” , wife and son killed in Naples, Florida, while flying in their private plane.
Verified accounts on twitter, including @chichi18061991 tweeted “CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe and 4 others. The chopper crashed onto Interstate 75 near Naples around 3:15 p.m. ET, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It collided with a vehicle, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. May their souls rest in peace” on Feb 11, 2024. The tweet has received an about 235.3k views on X.
CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe and 4 others.
— Chi Chi (@chichi18061991) February 10, 2024
The chopper crashed onto Interstate 75 near Naples around 3:15 p.m. ET, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
It collided with a vehicle, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
May their souls rest in peace pic.twitter.com/aYNHA4pBzN
Several other accounts, including @raviagrawal3, @drpenking, @Oneusefulguy made the same claim that CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe and 4 others died in a plane crash in Florida. The archive can be read from above.
What is the Actual Truth About their Incident? : Fact
The truth is that Herbert Wigwe, the CEO of Access Bank in Nigeria, was reportedly among the six fatalities from a Friday night helicopter accident in the Mojave Desert of California. Rather than Florida, San Bernardino County, California, is where he was killed. The plane crash captured on shared video is a completely different video.
We visited nbcnews, which published an article on this incident on Feb 10, 2024 with the headline “Nigerian bank CEO, family among the 6 killed in California helicopter crash”. Fox News also posted about this incident with the headline “Nigerian bank CEO killed in Mojave Desert helicopter crash in California: ‘Irreparable loss'” on Feb 10, 2024.
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D-Intent’s Fact-Checking Results:
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ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: Visuals of a plane crash site from Florida are being circulated, claiming that the CEO of Access Bank, 'Herbert Wigwe,' has his wife and son. Killed in their private plane in Florida's Naples. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/xai1ULpWjD
Intent:
Influencers are circulating misleading information about the death of the CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, as a clickbait. Visuals of a plane crash site from Florida are being circulated, claiming that the CEO of Access Bank, ‘Herbert Wigwe,’ has his wife and son Killed in their private plane in Florida’s Naples. The truth is that six people were reportedly killed in a Friday night helicopter crash in California’s Mojave Desert, including Herbert Wigwe, the CEO of Access Bank in Nigeria. Rather than in Florida, he was killed in San Bernardino County, California. A completely different incident is the shared as a video of the plane crash.
Conclusion:
Claim : There are images circulating of a Florida crash site that purport to show the death of “Herbert Wigwe,” the CEO of Access Bank, along with his son in their private plane in Naples, Florida.
Fact : The fact is that according to reports, Herbert Wigwe, the CEO of Nigeria’s Access Bank, was one of the six people killed in a Friday night helicopter crash in California’s Mojave Desert. He was killed in San Bernardino County, California, not in Florida. Shared video of the plane crash is totally separate incident.
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