Nicaraguan Air Force commander was killed in the crash

 Nicaragua Orlando Palacios military spokesman confirmed on the 20th, the country's one m -17 military helicopter crashed the day, causing the plane including the Nigerian Air Force General Commander, including 10 soldiers were killed.
Palacios In the evening's news conference, said rescue workers in the capital Managua Managua northe part of the lake to salvage the bodies of the victims, including the Nigerian Air Force Commander Manuel Lopez hereby, Air Force Intelligence Director Varga other seven senior Air Force officer. He also stressed that the Nigerian military has ruined local event set up a special investigation team to investigate the reasons for the crash.
According to information released earlier Nigerian army, which military helicopters day 10:29 (Beijing time at 0:29 on the 21st) northwest 56 km from Managua Department issued an emergency distress signal, the driver said the encounter emergency situation and are trying to landing, followed by Nigeria's military lost contact with the helicopter. At that time the military aounced the number of machines for 6 people
Mi-17 helicopter is the former Soviet Union Miri Design Bureau developed a single-rotor with tail rotor medium transport helicopter, the models in 1981 at the Paris Air Show debut, in 1983 began to export. Nicaraguan army, there are still a considerable number of Russian helicopters in service, subject to local restrictions on the level of technical and maintenance, aircraft safety hazards worrying.