Like everyone who had been at that Football Match or who watched or heard the commentary over the radio or television, we were shocked and dismayed and so saddened at the death of those poor 22 souls; 21 from Togo and 1 Russian. I decided to embark upon a fact finding mission as soon as day broke today Monday June 4th 2007.l

My first stop was the Paramount Airlines Offices at Aberdeen

This is a photo of a wrecked killer helicopter. As you can see it has no propeller blades

A parked "good condition" helicopter. My sister had just arrived from London less than 24 hours before. We are trying to figure out if she had used this "good" one or if she was one of the lucky ones to last use the fatal one before its last journey was made

I meet the staff and as soon as they see me, they decline to talk. When I pull out my cameras, they flee the scene

Another Paramount Airlines staff fleeing from my camera

Anyway, I move away from Paramount Airlines to the neighbouring Helicopter service known as the UTAir Airlines. Arriving at the UTAir Airlines, I ask to be ferried across on their next helicopter shuttle to Lungi. The staff tell me that only myself and a white lady seem to be brave enough to try to use a helicopter less than 24 hours after the crash. I tell them that I have been in a plane crash before and one thing I know is that when your time comes, you die and if your time is not up, you don't die. So, I obtain a ticket and together with my new found white friend, we board the UTAir helicopter and head for Lungi Airport. My friend introduces herself as Dr. Patricia, an Executive from Plan International. After finishing her stint in Freetown, she HAD to catch the flight to Liberia and like me, she was either brave or maybe we were both just foolish. Anyway, we pray and board the helicopter. ''My mum will get a heart attack if she learns of what I am up to'' I tell my new buddy Pat. She affirms the same and we both prepare for take off.

As the helicopter takes off, Pat poses for my camera inside the helicopter

Then, it is my own turn to pose for her cameras

I then take this aerial shot of the Helicopter Base at Aberdeen

And then proceed to take photos of the inside of the tinshackish helicopter. This one by the way looks much better than the Paramount Airlines one. This one at least has Life Jackets under the seats. I never saw such jackets on any Paramount helicopter

Another shot of the inside of the helicopter. As I said before, this UTAir looks better than the Paramount so you can just imagine what Paramount looks like. This is the back "emergency exit"

This is the front with the entry door

We finally finish flying over the Atlantic and this is a shot of the point around which the crashed helicopter reportedly started to lose its blades

This is what is left of the Paramount Airlines Helicopter

This is the Togolese Presidential Jet Plane that brought in the Togolese today

A Togolese woman consoles another Togolese woman

Minister of Transport Prince Harding helping Nahim Khadi coordinate things

Togolese newsmen and delegation

Airports Authority Boss Donald Bull hanging heads with his team. They are all in HOT waters right now.

President Kabbah was not in town when the helicopter crashed. He was in Libya attending a meeting interestingly he was reportedly seated next to Togolese President Gnassingbe when the news broke at the Conference in Libya. President Kabbah is shown here shortly after arrival this afternoon consoling Nahim Khadi

President Kabbah consoling the Togolese Delegation

President Kabbah sombrely looks at the wreckage

This is what is left of the whole helicopter. It was on fire for well over 40 minutes

President Kabbah walks away from the wreckage. He has a furious look on his face. Many say that Prince Harding who is shown walking behind him, is in big trouble and might even lose his job

Another shot of the wreckage that took the lives of the Togolese Sports Minister and 20 Togolese Fans

Police Officers helping some of the Togolese players into their buses.