{"id":59998,"date":"2020-01-28T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59998"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:11:16","slug":"croatian-military-helicopter-crashes-into-adriatic-sea-1-pilot-killed-another-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59998","title":{"rendered":"Croatian military helicopter crashes into Adriatic Sea; 1 pilot killed, another missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-01\/28\/138737890_15801747727371n.jpg\" alt=\"CROATIA-SIBENIK-MILITARY HELICOPTER-CRASH\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ZAGREB, Jan 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Croatian Defense Ministry confirmed that a Kiowa military helicopter with two crew members on board had crashed into the Adriatic Sea between Zablace and Zlarin in the Sibenik archipelago, killing one pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two helicopters were on a training flight that began at 10:30 a.m. local time, and one of them hit the water from a very low altitude about one hour later, the Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two naval coast guard vessels were dispatched to the scene immediately after the incident, and were joined by a helicopter and local rescue ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Croatian Air Force Commander Michael Krizanec said at a press conference that the helicopter with two pilots hit the water for unknown reasons. Fishermen pulled one of them to shore and tried to resuscitate him unsuccessfully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other pilot is still missing, according to local news portal N1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The helicopter wreck was found 30 meters deep in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pending the completion of investigation, the Defense Ministry has ordered a suspension of all helicopters of this model. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAGREB, Jan 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Croatian Defense Ministry confirmed that a Kiowa military helicopter with two crew members on board had crashed into the Adriatic Sea between Zablace and Zlarin in the Sibenik archipelago, killing one pilot. Two helicopters were on a training flight that began at 10:30 a.m. local time, and one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59998"}],"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=59998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}