The helicopter had taken off from Accra, the capital, en route to a mining conference when it went “off the radar,” the armed forces said.

Eight passengers, including multiple government officials, were killed after a military helicopter fell off the radar and crashed in Ghana on Wednesday, Aug. 6

Ghana's defence and environment ministers were killed in a military helicopter crash Wednesday, the presidency said, after the air force chopper carrying three crew and five passengers came down in a forest in the south.