Security Analyst and retired military officer, Colonel Festus Aboagye, has called on the John Mahama administration to make public the full investigative report on the August 6 helicopter crash that claimed eight lives, including key government officials.
His appeal comes after the investigative committee submitted its final report to President John Dramani Mahama during a National Security Council meeting at the Jubilee House on Monday, November 10, 2025.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s “The Point of View” with Bernard Avle on Wednesday, November 12, Col. Aboagye said the nation deserved full disclosure of the findings, stressing that transparency was vital to ensuring accountability and restoring public confidence.
“I have seen snippets of the report on social media. We deserve, as Ghanaians, to see the full document beyond the presentation,” he said.
“This is a matter of national importance. The loss of lives has affected families, institutions, and the image of the state. We must understand what went wrong and how to prevent future tragedies.”
The committee’s report, chaired by Acting Defence Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, determined that the Ghana Air Force helicopter encountered a sudden downdraft and loss of altitude while flying through unstable weather conditions, resulting in the crash.
It further established that both pilots were highly skilled and fully certified, ruling out human error as the main cause of the incident.
The ill-fated aircraft had departed Accra around 9:12 a.m. en route to Obuasi for an anti-illegal mining operation before it lost radar contact less than an hour later.
Col. Aboagye argued that releasing the report would not only honour the memory of the victims but also help strengthen Ghana’s aviation safety systems and emergency response mechanisms.
“We owe it to those who perished — and to ourselves as a nation — to learn every possible lesson from this,” he added.
