UPDF Gunship Helicopter Crashes In Uganda

Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers on Saturday survived a helicopter crash after the Force’s Mi-24 gunship crashed landed near Saaka Airfield in Fort Portal City.

The helicopter crashed into a mud and wattle house at Saaka, just half a kilometer from the airfield, according to UPDF officials.

UPDF soldiers have cordoned off the crash scene to restrain on-lookers and journalists from getting to it for security reasons, according to the UPDF Mountain division spokesperson, Major Peter Mugisa.

“The UPDF technical team from Entebbe has reportedly been contacted to go and investigate the cause of the crash.

"There was an incident involving our Mi-24 fighter helicopter that crash-landed at Saaka Airfield.

"It landed on a civilian's house damaging the roof.

"Good enough, the occupants of the house and the helicopter came out safely. Nobody was injured.

"The unfortunate part is that the helicopter and the house got some damages.

"Part of the banana plantation at the home was also destroyed."