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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released official pictures of the crash site where the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Holdings, Mr Herbert Wigwe, alongside five others, lost their lives.

NTSB is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.

The pictures were released shortly after NTSB investigators arrived at the crash site Saturday evening to collect evidence.

The New Diplomat had reported that Wigwe, alonside his wife and his son; and Bamofin Abimbola Ogunbanjo, former chair of NGX Group, the Nigerian stock exchange, lost their lives in a crash.

The Airbus EC130 aircraft was heading to Boulder City from Palm Springs, California, when it crashed near Halloran Springs, California, about 80 miles south of Las Vegas.

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