On Sunday the flight of four helicopters took off from Entebbe, Uganda and were scheduled to stop at Wajir, Kenya for refueling, before continuing on to reinforce African Union peacekeepers in Somalia.
Unfortunately, only one of the four made it safely, the others fell off radar and never arrived.
Searchers found the other three on Monday, one had crash landed, and the other two had crashed outright.
Eighteen officers and crew have been rescued, while three bodies have been found, leaving seven unaccounted for.
One of the crash sites has not been reached yet, due to the inhospitable terrain, and rescuers have little hope for the men aboard that helicopter.
The loss of the helicopters is a heavy blow for Uganda, which has had a history of their aircraft crashing.
Uganda has five thousand troops committed to the freeing of Somalia from warlords.
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