Is this another Cover up? Military Air Plane goes missing in North East

A Nigerian Air Force jet has been missing for two days after disappearing in the country's far northeast, where troops are fighting Boko Haram insurgents, the military said on Sunday.

The Alpha Jet, with two pilots on board, left its base in Yola, Adamawa state, on what was described as a “routine operational mission” at about 10:45 am (0945 GMT) on Friday and had been expected back by midday the same day.

“Since then all efforts to establish contact with the aircraft have not yielded any positive result,” military spokesman Chris Olukolade said in a statement.

Search and rescue teams are trying to track the location of the plane and contact its crew, he added.

The Alpha Jet was designed and manufactured by Germany's Dornier and Dassault-Breguet of France in the 1970s as a training and tactical support aircraft.

A total of 512 were produced in all for 10 air forces around the world, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Togo, according to the Dassault Aviation website.

Olukolade did not specify whether the missing plane was being used against Boko Haram fighters, but residents living in and around the Yola base told AFP last week that there had been an increasing number of sorties.

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The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu, said the military had an idea of where the Nigerian Air Force Alpha fighter jet, which went missing after a military operation in Konduga, Borno State, last Friday, could be.

He said in an interview with State House correspondents after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice, Namadi Sambo, in Abuja.

Military probes Borno airforce plane crash While noting that the search operation had been challenging, he was optimistic that he would provide credible information about the missing jet before the end of the week.