{"id":192734,"date":"2022-09-25T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T02:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=192734"},"modified":"2022-09-25T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T02:46:47","slug":"ugandan-military-helicopter-crashes-in-western-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=192734","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan military helicopter crashes in western region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Helicopter-crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237569\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The helicopter wreckage at the scene<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KAMPALA, Sept 25 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A Ugandan military helicopter crashed in the western district of Kabarole Saturday but no casualties were caused, a military spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Felix Kulayigye, a military spokesperson, tweeted that the MI-24 helicopter developed a mechanical fault while in flight and the pilot made an emergency landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately no casualties both to the occupants of the plane and on the ground,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kulayigye said a team has been dispatched to the crash site from the air force headquarters to establish the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year in February two cadet trainees of the Uganda military were injured when a military helicopter they were traveling in crash-landed soon after take-off at the Entebbe International Airport, 40 km south of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The February accident occurred just after a week when another Ugandan military helicopter crashed in Somalia, injuring four soldiers on an African Union peacekeeping mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January 2020, the military lost two soldiers in a Jet Ranger which crashed in the central district of Gomba.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The helicopter wreckage at the scene KAMPALA, Sept 25 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A Ugandan military helicopter crashed in the western district of Kabarole Saturday but no casualties were caused, a military spokesperson confirmed. Felix Kulayigye, a military spokesperson, tweeted that the MI-24 helicopter developed a mechanical fault while in flight and the pilot made an emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192736,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192734\/revisions\/192736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}