The helicopter was headed to DR Congo after taking off from Ssaka Airfield. According to eyewitnesses, before it crashed, the helicopter hit the roof of two houses before going into flames.
A military helicopter has crashed in Kabarole District. The helicopter crashed on Tuesday at 2:30 pm in Nyamisigiri Village at the border between Kabarole and Ntoroko in Kichwamba Sub-county.
The helicopter was headed to DR Congo after taking off from Ssaka Airfield. According to eyewitnesses, before it crashed, the helicopter hit the roof of two houses before going into flames.
Maj Naboth Mugisha, the Spokesperson of the UPDF Air Force confirmed the incident, saying it was purely an accident. The victims were yet to be confirmed.
UPDF crashes are on the rise. On July 29 2023, yet another UPDF Russian-made helicopter crashed while in operation in Moroto. Luckily there were no casualties according to the army. This crash was preceded by two recent Mi-17 and Mi-24 helicopter crashes within hours of each other, in western Uganda and eastern DRC.
In February 2022, two cadet trainees of the Uganda military were injured when a military helicopter they were traveling in crash-landed soon after take-off at the Entebbe International Airport, 40 km south of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The February accident occurred just after a week when another Ugandan military helicopter crashed in Somalia, injuring four soldiers on an African Union peacekeeping mission.
In January 2020, the military lost two soldiers in a Jet Ranger that crashed in the central district of Gomba.
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