{"id":72659,"date":"2020-05-02T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T04:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=72659"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T04:53:12","slug":"canada-says-five-missing-in-navy-chopper-crash-in-mediterranean-sea-believed-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=72659","title":{"rendered":"Canada says five missing in navy chopper crash in Mediterranean Sea believed dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Canada-says-five-missing-in-navy-chopper-crash-believed-dead-2.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Canada-says-five-missing-in-navy-chopper-crash-believed-dead-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OTTAWA, May 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The five missing crew members of a Canadian navy helicopter that crashed during a NATO operation this week into the Mediterranean Sea are presumed dead, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search and rescue mission undertaken on Wednesday has now officially been transformed into a recovery effort, the Canadian defense ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, the body of one crew member from the Cyclone Sikorsky CH-148 helicopter, Sub-Lieutenant Abbigail Cowbrough, has been recovered and identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe missing five members who were aboard the aircraft are now officially considered missing and presumed deceased,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAdditional remains have been discovered during the search, but cannot be identified at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident took place Wednesday \u2014 the helicopter was headed back to the warship HMCS Fredericton after a training mission when contact was lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NATO ships and aircraft took part in the search and rescue mission, supported by Greece, Italy, Turkey and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNATO allies will be continuing recovery efforts at the scene as HMCS Fredericton departs for port in Italy,\u201d the Canadian ministry said, adding that the warship would arrive in Italy on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said the helicopter\u2019s cockpit voice and flight data recorders had been recovered and would be analyzed in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the crash is so far \u201cunknown,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian frigate and submarine-hunting helicopter had been deployed since Jan 20 on NATO\u2019s Operation Reassurance, aimed at deterring Russia intervention in eastern and central Europe. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, May 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The five missing crew members of a Canadian navy helicopter that crashed during a NATO operation this week into the Mediterranean Sea are presumed dead, officials said. The search and rescue mission undertaken on Wednesday has now officially been transformed into a recovery effort, the Canadian defense ministry said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":72662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72659"}],"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=72659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}