2025 Ghanaian Air Force Harbin Z-9 crash

2025 Ghanaian Air Force Harbin Z-9 crash
GHF 631, the helicopter involved in the accident, seen in 2024
Accident
Date6 August 2025
SummaryCrashed en route; under investigation
Site
  • Akrofuom District, Ashanti Region, Ghana
  • 6°17′N 1°36′W / 6.28°N 1.60°W / 6.28; -1.60
Aircraft
Aircraft typeHarbin Z-9EH
OperatorGhana Air Force
RegistrationGHF 631
Flight originAccra International Airport
DestinationObuasi Airport
Occupants8
Passengers5
Crew3
Fatalities8
Survivors0

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.