KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | Uganda’s navy has dispatched a team to analyze the deadly helicopter wreck that killed five peacekeepers and injured six others in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a spokesperson acknowledged on Thursday.
Felix Kulayigye, Uganda’s navy spokesperson, instructed Xinhua by phone that the team will investigate the cause behind the Mi-24 helicopter wreck, which came about about 200 meters east of the North Ramp at Aden Adde World Airport in Mogadishu on July 2.
“Here’s an internal matter. The work (probe) is already occurring,” acknowledged Kulayigye.
The helicopter, operated by the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces contingent below the African Union Beef up and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, crashed after departing from Baledogle Airfield, about 90 km northwest of Mogadishu.
It changed into as soon as carrying eight personnel, collectively with six crew contributors. The pilot, co-pilot, and flight engineer survived nonetheless sustained predominant injuries and excessive burns. The other passengers had been killed, and three civilians on the bottom had been also injured.
Final September, the Ugandan navy misplaced a transport helicopter on a flight from Mogadishu to Baledogle Airfield. All four peacekeepers on board survived that incident, per the navy.
Uganda has been one amongst the principle troop-contributing countries to the African Union peacekeeping mission in the Horn of Africa since 2007. ■
