{"id":42906,"date":"2017-08-26T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=42906"},"modified":"2017-08-26T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T06:00:58","slug":"u-s-black-hawk-helicopter-crashes-off-yemen-one-service-member-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/u-s-black-hawk-helicopter-crashes-off-yemen-one-service-member-missing.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashes off Yemen, one service member missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashes off Yemen, one service member missing<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashes off Yemen, one service member missing:- A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of Yemen on Friday during a training mission and a search was under way for one U.S. service member, the U.S. military said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">U.S. Central Command said in a statement that five other service members aboard the aircraft had been rescued after the crash, which took place about 20 miles (32 km) off the southern coast of Yemen at 7 p.m. (16000 GMT).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">A U.S. official told Reuters that the cause of the crash was under investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cWhen the incident took place the helicopter was not very high above the water,\u201d CENTCOM spokesman Colonel John Thomas said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The United States has been carrying out air strikes against al Qaeda in Yemen, with at least 80 launched since the end of February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">A small number of ground raids using U.S. Special Operations forces have also taken place, including one in January which resulted in the death of a U.S. Navy Seal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">There have been a number of aviation mishaps involving U.S military aircraft in the past few months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The U.S. Coast Guard recently said that it had suspended its search off Hawaii for five Army aviators missing since their Black Hawk helicopter crashed earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">In April, a Black Hawk U.S. Army helicopter crashed on a Maryland golf course, killing one crewmember and seriously injuring two others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Last month, a military transport plane crash killing 16 service members including elite special operations forces in northern Mississippi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-yemen-crash-idUSKCN1B6054?il=0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  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