The Chief Executive Officer of CEO of Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe is dead.
A chopper transporting Wigwe reportedly crashed killing him and 5 other yet to be identified persons in California.
The Nigerian banker and entrepreneur was aged 57.
Sources said the chopper was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night. The US government confirmed all on board dead.
The Group Chief Executive Officer, Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Wigwe, is feared dead.
Wigwe was reported to have died following a helicopter crash in California near the Nevada border, United States of America, The Will reports.
There are also reports that his wife and son were also onboard the ill-fated helicopter.
New York Times reports that no survivors have been located as of Saturday morning, the authorities said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that the Eurocopter EC130 helicopter crashed at around 10 p.m. local time near Nipton, Calif, an unincorporated community about 60 miles south of Las Vegas in eastern San Bernardino County.
It was unclear on Saturday morning where the helicopter departed from and where it was headed.
