The Last Flight
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.Writing from the vantage position of being a part of the nucleus and foundation member of the Nigerian Air Force and later an active air combatant in the Nigeria-Biafra air war, Captain August Okpe has given a robust and exciting account as well as some incredible perspectives of the political and military intrigues on both sides of the divide. These are but a few of the multitude of expose and revelations that the Author chronicles in this book:
A Nigerian Air Force aircraft executing military flight manoeuvres and violent aerobatics crashes over Ibadan and sets off unprecedented accusations, recriminations and suspicions of acts of sabotage, treachery and betrayal perpetrated by the German Air Force Technical Assistant Group in Nigeria.
Guided by the military intelligence, a clutch of aggrieved Eastern Nigerian Patriots boards a Benin-Lagos flight and diverts it to land at Enugu airport in a quick well coordinated broad daylight skyjack. It was the first violent airplane snatch in Nigeria.
The Czechoslovakian Ambassador receives a human torso that crashed through his living room window courtesy of an exploding Biafran AIr Force bomber over the Lagos metropolis.
A Biafran Air Force suicide squad goes behind enemy lines to destroy Biafran aircraft at the airport where Port Harcourt fell.
A German Corporal ignoring military protocol because of irreconcilable prejudice fails to salute a Nigerian Lieutenant thereby provoking intra-service hierarchical chaos in the German-run NAF.
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