{"id":15088,"date":"2025-11-12T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/poor-weather-blamed-for-fatal-helicopter-crash-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:26","slug":"poor-weather-blamed-for-fatal-helicopter-crash-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/poor-weather-blamed-for-fatal-helicopter-crash-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor weather blamed for fatal helicopter crash in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigative committee has determined that poor weather conditions caused the helicopter crash in August that claimed the lives of Ghana\u2019s Ministers of Defence and Environment, along with six others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Z9 military helicopter went down in a dense forest while travelling from the capital, Accra, to Obuasi, leaving no survivors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a two-month investigation, authorities found that the aircraft lost altitude and lift due to a downdraft, a downward air current. The report confirmed that the helicopter was airworthy at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, investigators recommended that the Ghana Air Force modernise its fleet, citing a lack of contemporary safety and navigational systems in its current helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15089,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-15088","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"An investigative committee has determined that poor weather conditions caused the Ghana helicopter crash ","published_date":"2025-11-12 10:29:54","news_description":"An investigative committee has determined that poor weather conditions caused the Ghana helicopter crash ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19476,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15088\/revisions\/19476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}