LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A helicopter used by an African Union peacekeeping mission has crashed at the international airport in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing five passengers, a Ugandan military spokesperson said. Another three of the helicopter’s eight occupants survived the incident on Wednesday but with severe injuries and burns, said the spokesperson, Felix Kulayigye. The…
LAGOS APRIL 11H (NEWSRANGERS)-A family’s afternoon sightseeing excursion above the misty shoreline of Manhattan ended in tragedy Thursday after the helicopter carrying them crashed off the New Jersey shoreline, killing them and the pilot. Spectators watched the helicopter as it dropped from the sky and slammed into the river upside down as fluttering debris landed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Four people died when a helicopter crashed into a hospital in southwestern Turkey on Sunday, the provincial governor said, blaming the accident on thick fog. “The helicopter fell to the ground after having struck the fourth storey of a hospital during take-off,” killing two pilots, a doctor and an employee on board…
LAGOS OCTOBR 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No more than three persons have lost their lives in a helicopter accident that happened around 11:22 am in Port Harcourt today, Vanguard has learnt. The accident, which involved a Sikorsky SK76 with registration 5NBQG and operated by East Wind Aviation, was en-route from Port Harcourt Military Base, DNPM, to the NUIMANTAN…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and other officials died in a helicopter crash Sunday near Iran’s northern border with Azerbaijan, Iranian state media said Monday morning. The helicopter was part of a convoy of three helicopters returning from an event inaugurating a joint dam project when it crashed in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH *NEWSRANGERS)-First responders have located the military helicopter which went missing on a flight from Nevada to California on Tuesday, but the five US Marines on board remain missing. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter was located in Pine Valley, Calif. at about 9 a.m. local time by using ground and air crews, according to Marine officials. First…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man has made headlines for dropping a whopping 1 million Dollars from a helicopter and allowing people to pick the money. In a widely circulated video, the man, Kazma Kazmitch, said what he did represented the first real money rain in the world. In the clip, Kazam dropped off the 1…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger’s junta said on Thursday that it had thwarted an escape attempt by ousted President Mohamed Bozoum who has been imprisoned by the military since a July 26 coup despite international calls for his release. The interim authorities said that Bazoum and his family, with the help of accomplices in the security…