2025 Ghanaian Air Force Harbin Z-9 crash
Ghana Air Force Harbin Z-9EH · Crashed en route; under investigation
From Kotoka International Airport (ACC) to Obuasi Airport
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 8
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Harbin Z-9EH
- Aircraft type
- Harbin Z-9
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- GHF 631
- Operator
- Ghana Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Kotoka International Airport (ACC)To Obuasi Airport
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 6 August 2025, a Ghana Air Force Harbin Z-9 helicopter carrying eight people to an event about fighting illegal mining crashed into a forested mountainside in the Ashanti region of Ghana, killing all eight people on board. Among the dead were Ghana's defence minister Edward Omane Boamah and environment minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed.
Crash
According to the Ghana Armed Forces, the helicopter took off from Accra International Airport in Accra at 9:12 a.m., heading northwest into the interior toward the gold-mining area for an event about tackling illegal mining at the Obuasi Black Park in Obuasi, Ashanti Region, when it went off the radar. The helicopter's wreckage was found later, with all of the victims being burnt beyond recognition in a post-crash fire.
Footage of the crash site showed debris on fire in a forest as people circled around to help. The crash was one of Ghana's worst air disasters in more than a decade.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Ghana Armed Forces said an investigation was under way. The Ghana National Fire and Rescue Service confirmed they will investigate the crash in conjunction with other security agencies. The flight recorder of the helicopter was recovered by a team of investigators a day after the crash.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2025 Ghanaian Air Force Harbin Z-9 crash
- Revision
- 1354696613 · 2026-05-17 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q135657815
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2025 Ghanaian Air Force Harbin Z-9 crash" (page 80656330, revision 1354696613)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.