•President John Mahama of Ghana Ghana has launched a full investigation into a military helicopter crash that killed the country’s defence and environment ministers and six other people, President John Mahama announced yesterday. Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah, Environment Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed and six other people, including...
Ghana’s defence and environment ministers were killed in a helicopter crash today, the Ghanaian presidency said, hours after the armed forces reported a chopper carrying three crew and five passengers dropped off the radar. Edward Omane Boamah became President John Mahama’s defence minister earlier this year shortly after Mahama’s swearing-in ...
•Helicopter crashes into Hudson River killing all six onboard Six people including three children were killed after a sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York yesterday, sparking a major water rescue operation, authorities said. The crash killed all those onboard the aircraft: the pilot and a family from Spain. Two of t...
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has released the preliminary report on the crash of a Sikorsky helicopter which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Finima in Bonny, Rivers State killing all eight people onboard. The crash report of the Sikorsky helicopter marked S76C with registration 5N-BQG operated by East Wind Aviation Logi...
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) yesterday said the fourth body of the Port Harcourt crash victim has been recovered. NSIB spokesperson Bimbo Oladeji, in a statement yesterday, said, “A floating body was retrieved from the water and was escorted by the Cameroonian Navy to NUIMS Antan, for safe transit through their territorial w...
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) says two more bodies have been recovered from the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter that crashed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Three persons were confirmed dead following the crash yesterday. Eight persons (six passengers and two crew members) were on board the aircraft when the incident hap...
•The crash scene A Kenyan military helicopter carrying top brass including the defence chief crashed today, police said. President William Ruto convened an urgent meeting of the National Security Council, his office announced after news of the crash emerged, reports AFP. Defence forces chief General Francis Omondi Ogolla was among those on boa...

