2025 Ghanaian Air Force Z-9 helicopter crash

On 6 August 2025, a Ghana Air Force Harbin Z-9 helicopter carrying eight people, three crew members and five passengers to an event about ending illegal mining crashed in the mountains of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The crash killed all eight people onboard. Among the dead were Ghana's defence minister Edward Omane Boamah, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed (Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation), Limuna Mohammed Muniru (Acting Deputy National Security Coordinator and former Minister for Food and Agriculture), Samuel Sarpong (Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress), Samuel Aboagye (Former parliamentary candidate) and three crew members; Peter Bafemi Anala, Manin Twum-Ampadu and Ernest Addo Mensah 

The cause of the crash is not known but some possible causes include technological issues and weather. The crash was one of Ghana's worst air disasters in more than a decade.

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