Nigeria, Oct. 9 -- The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has commenced efforts to recover the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of its ATR-42 aircraft that crashed in Igbokoda, headquarters of Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State.

NAF Superintendent of Standards and Evaluation, Ebimobo Ebiowe, an air vice marshal, disclosed this to journalists at the crash site on Friday.

The aircraft, which was on a routine mission from Benin City, Edo State, to Lagos, crashed into a swamp near the Nigerian Navy's Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Igbokoda on Monday, killing all 25 people on board.

Officials say the aircraft came down, breaking into two, with its main body fully submerged in the swamp with a refusal level of about 30 m...