Twenty-one (21) passengers onboard a Ghana Airforce Helicopter with registration number GHF 969, were yesterday rescued to safety; after the aircraft crash-landed at Bonsukrom, a suburb in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region.
It is unclear yet what caused the forced landing but eye witnesses say the helicopter hovered over the area for some time in an attempt to find a suitable site to landing, when it lost its balance and crashed into nearby trees.
Footages see by this paper show a side view of the helicopter trapped among the shrubs.
The Military, in a statement (published), said the helicopter had on board passengers made up of staff of the Ghana National Gas Company aircrew.
The statement, signed by Brigadier General Aggrey Quarshie, stated that those onboard the aircraft were “conducting routine offshore powerline inspection of the Atuabo gas plant when the incident occurred.”
The Director of Public Relations of the Ghana Armed Forces, added that “preliminary assessments have commenced to ascertain the cause of the incident.”
One of the injured, the paper gathered, is being transported to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for emergency medical attention.
