The Director, Defence Information, Colonel Abubakar Rabe, confirmed this to Channels Television.The plane was said to be returning from an interdicted mission when it went down due to bad weather.
Only the pilot is said to have died in the accident.
The Chief of Air Staff has set up a panel to investigate the cause of the crash.
In August, a Dornier 228 light aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force had also crashed in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria.
The aircraft was said to be on its way to Abuja after taking off from the Air Force Base in Kaduna when it crashed at the old site of the Nigerian Defence Academy less than ten minutes after it took off.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Sadique Abubakar said at the time that he had set up an investigation panel to look into the cause of the crash.
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