Officers of the Ghana Armed Forces and aviation experts continue to comb the Dampia Range Forest Reserve to retrieve the wreckage of the Z-9 military helicopter as part of ongoing investigations.
Two cabinet ministers and six others, including the crew onboard the military aircraft en route to Obuasi from Accra, perished in the fatal crash in the Adansi town of Brofoyeduru.
President John Mahama, in a televised address last night, confirmed the recovery of the "Black Box", a flight recorder which contains cockpit audio recordings to facilitate investigations into the circumstances which led to the fatal crash.
But some local farmers are complaining of starvation because the investigations have denied them access to their farms, as some farmlands are cordoned off to pave the way for the investigations. "Now we buy food from the street shops.
