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  • Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes

    The Leicester City owner’s helicopter has crashed in a car park outside the club’s ground shortly after taking off after a match.

    Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was in the helicopter when it came down at about 20:30 BST on Saturday, a source close to the family has told the BBC.
    Witnesses said they saw it just clear the stadium before it spiralled out of control and crashed in a fireball.
    The Foxes on Saturday played 1-1 draw against West Ham United with a late equaliser from Wilifred Ndidi at King Power stadium.
    Pictures from outside the ground showed a large fire in the car park although it has now been extinguished, according to reports.
     

  • Military helicopter crashes, kills 18

    Military helicopter crashes, kills 18

    An Ethiopian military helicopter crashed on Thursday, killing all 18 people on board, the state-affiliated Fana Broadcast Corporate reported.

    The aircraft crashed on a flight between the eastern city of Dire Dawa and Bishoftu in the centre of the country, the agency said.

    Everyone on board – 15 soldiers and three civilians – were killed.

    The helicopter belonged to the Ethiopian Defense Ministry, according to the Fana TV channel

    There were no immediate details about the cause of the crash, or what type of helicopter was involved.
    Ethiopia fields a number of Mi-17 utility helicopters, also known as the Mi-8.

    In 2013, an Ethiopian military cargo plane crashed in Mogadishu, killing four crew members.

    Sputnik/NAN

  • Five die, 13 survive in helicopter crash

    Five die, 13 survive in helicopter crash

    Twelve mainly Russian climbers and a crew member have survived a helicopter crash in the mountains of Tajikistan.

    But three Russian climbers and two Tajik pilots died in the accident in the Pamir Mountains in east Tajikistan.

    The “hard landing” of the helicopter happened at 17:30 (11:30 GMT) on Sunday, Tajik officials said.

    Russian news agencies said the helicopter had taken the climbers from a nearby base camp on the Fortambek glacier on the Ismoili Somoni peak.

    Of the 12 climbers to survive, two are Belarusian and Spanish and the remainder Russian. The surviving crew member was from Tajikistan.

    The helicopter, a Russian-built Mi-8, crash-landed on the edge of the Fortambek glacier, approximately 300 km (186 miles) east of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.

    At 7,495m (24,590ft), the Ismoili Somoni mountain is Tajikistan’s highest and a major tourist attraction.

    It was known as Communism Peak when Tajikistan was part of the Soviet Union and renamed after a 10th-Century Tajik national hero in 1998.

    The Pamir mountain range is often described as the “roof of the world”.

    BBC

  • Shekau, Boko Haram not responsible for crashed helicopter – NAF

    The Nigerian Air Force on Saturday debunked claims by Abubakar Shekau; leader of the terrorist sect, Boko Haram in a recent video he (Shekau) released that he (Shekau) and other members of the sect shot down the Mi-17 helicopter, which crashed during an operation in the North-East.

    The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya stated this in an interview with The Punch, describing Shekau’s statement as a “bare-faced lie.”

    It would be recalled that the Air Force’s Mi-17 crashed on January 8, 2018, while in the North-East during a counter-Boko Haram insurgency operation.

    Although no life was lost during the incident, the Air Force noted that the helicopter suffered a “significant damage.”

    The Air Force had said that the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, directed the constitution of a board of inquiry to determine the cause of the incident.

    The board had yet to submit its report.

    Boko Haram insurgents, had on Monday, released a video, claiming that they were responsible for the crashed helicopter.

    Shekau had said, “We hold unto the Chibok schoolgirls; we still have the policewomen. Among the Chibok schoolgirls that insisted on following the ways of their parents’ religion, we allowed them to go back and join their people. The military have come to us, but it did not end well; that is why your helicopter went down; that is why your armoured tanks got destroyed.”

    But reacting to the claim by the insurgents, NAF Spokesperson, Adesanya, said, “The Boko Haram did not shoot down the NAF’s Mi-17 helicopter. If that were the case, the public would have been duly informed.

    “The NAF remains accountable to the citizenry. This is why we issued a statement immediately after the crash landing of the helicopter, which was on a routine mission in the North-East.