{"id":216721,"date":"2023-03-31T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=216721"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:34:43","slug":"us-army-helicopter-crash-nine-service-members-killed-in-training-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=216721","title":{"rendered":"US Army helicopter crash: Nine service members killed in training mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/147A0\/production\/_129227838_gettyimages-1249954731.jpg\" alt=\"A humvee blocking the scene\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; <strong>Nine US troops died after two US Army helicopters crashed during a training mission in Kentucky, officials say.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wednesday night crash involved the 101st Airborne Division and happened near the Fort Campbell military base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took place at 22:00 (02:00GMT) while all nine troops were wearing night-vision goggles, said a top US general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unclear what caused the crash and an investigation into what happened is under way. No injuries were reported of anyone on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Army Brigadier General John Lubas told reporters that one chopper was carrying five people while the other carried four in what he described as a &#8220;fairly typical&#8221; arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group had been practicing a &#8220;multi-ship formation&#8221; and medical evacuation drills, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he added that the crash appears to have occurred while they were flying, and not while in formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The force is &#8220;doing everything we can&#8221; to notify next-of-kin, Gen Lubas said, adding that some of them are outside of the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a Senate hearing in Washington DC, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth thanked lawmakers for their condolences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An air investigations team from Fort Rucker in Alabama has been deployed, the general said, and will examine the possibility that the helicopters collided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At this point, we don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;re hopeful that when we get the team from Fort Rucker here and they&#8217;re able to pull some of the data out of the onboard computers we will have a better understanding of exactly what happened,&#8221; he said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, March 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Nine US troops died after two US Army helicopters crashed during a training mission in Kentucky, officials say. The Wednesday night crash involved the 101st Airborne Division and happened near the Fort Campbell military base. It took place at 22:00 (02:00GMT) while all nine troops were wearing night-vision goggles, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216721"}],"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=216721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216725,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216721\/revisions\/216725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}