The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) have revealed that Tolulope Arotile, Nigeria’s First female combat helicopter pilot, was hit by her former classmate’s car.
The first Nigeria Air Force female combat pilot, Tolulope Arotile died at age 24 as a result of head injuries she sustained from an accident at the Nigerian Air Force base in Kaduna state.
The death of the Flying Officer was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday night by the Director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola.
Thereafter, on Wednesday, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information Air Com. Ibikunle Daramola said in a statement that the unnamed ex-classmate was reportedly reversing the car when it hit Arotile who fell and hit her head on the tarmac.
The statement said Arotile who joined the NAF out of passion for the job, died while receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
“Flying Officer Arotile died on July 14, 2020, at the age of 24, when she was inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force Secondary School classmate while trying to greet her.
“Before her untimely death, Flying Officer Arotile made significant and outstanding contributions to the war against terrorism, armed banditry and other forms of criminality in the country, flying several combat missions,” the spokesman said.
Below are throwback videos of the late officer.
