Reports from Uganda indicate that Uganda military UPDF has been able to only find two of the four missing helicopters that went off radar while navigating Kenyan air space on their way to Somalia.
The four choppers were flagged off from Entebbe air force base to support a planned military operation against Somali extremist group Al-Shabaab.
Uganda military has withdrawn its own initial report that all of its missing four helicopters have been found.
The army now says two of the aircraft are still missing after they dropped off the radar while in Kenyan airspace.
However, the Kenyan government remained non-committal on the matter.
On Monday, UPDF said it could account for all of its four attack helicopters that went missing Sunday.
It also stated that all its 28-crew members in the four helicopters were safe. One had landed safely at the Kenyan base in Wajir, another crash-landed on Mt. Kenya, while two crash-landed in Garissa.
Today afternoon, UPDF spokesperson Col. Felix Kulayigye said that one helicopter – MI-23 transport chopper – made it to Mogadishu, while two of the three MI-24 attack helicopters were yet to be found.
Col. Kulayigye added that one MI-24 attack helicopter operated by Lt. Col. Chris Kasaija crash landed in Mt. Kenya and all its seven-man crew were rescued and evacuated by the Kenyan military to nearby Nanyuki.
The UPDF spokesperson however, could not account for two of the attack helicopters.
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