Felix Kulayigye, a military spokesperson, tweeted that the MI-24 helicopter developed a mechanical fault while in flight and the pilot made an emergency landing.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately no casualties both to the occupants of the plane and on the ground,” he said.<\/p>\n
Kulayigye said a team has been dispatched to the crash site from the air force headquarters to establish the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n
Last year in February 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.<\/p>\n
In January 2020, the military lost two soldiers in a Jet Ranger which crashed in the central district of Gomba. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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