Sunday, November 12, 2023

5 U.S. Special Operations Forces Killed In Helicopter Crash In The Eastern Mediterranean Sea

DNYUZ/New York Times: 5 U.S. Special Operations Forces Killed in Helicopter Crash in Mediterranean 

Five U.S. Army Special Operations forces have died in a helicopter crash in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, American officials said on Sunday. 

The troops were crew members of an MH-60 helicopter that was on a refueling training mission late Friday when the aircraft crashed off the coast of Cyprus, three U.S. officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational details. 

The crash is under investigation, they said.  

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 5 U.S. Special Operations Forces Killed In Helicopter Crash In The Eastern Mediterranean Sea  

Special Operations troops killed in helicopter ‘mishap’ over Mediterranean, officials say -- Washington Post 

US military aircraft crashes in Mediterranean Sea after training mishap, 'no indication' of hostile activity -- FOX News  

Five US service members killed in aircraft training accident in eastern Mediterranean Sea -- CNN 

5 U.S. service members killed in helicopter crash in Mediterranean Sea -- Axios  

5 US special operations troops killed in Veterans Day weekend crash after training 'mishap': Officials -- ABC News

5 Army special operations soldiers killed in helicopter crash -- Military Times  

5 Army aviators die in Veteran's Day Mediterranean chopper crash -- UPI  

Five US special operation troops killed after aircraft crashes in Mediterranean -- The Guardian  

US Military Aircraft Crashes In Eastern Mediterranean -- Zero Hedge

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Crash or shot down? Plane went down too. WTF is going on over there?

RussInSoCal said...

WTF is going on over there?

US forces are training for all out war. At that pace of exercise, bad accidents happen. Wish they wouldn't happen. But they do.


RIP,

R,

Hans Persson said...

This sucks, you know these are the good guys dying. RIP.

Anonymous said...

My 2cents? Russ may be right with a greater than 50% probability IMO.

If they were shot down, be assured that Blinken and Sullivan are meeting to come up with a proportionate response.

You kill 5 of out guys, we kill 5 of yours. The other side having more guys never enters into their thinking. They are the adults in the room don't you know.

Anonymous said...

WABC at 5:27 ET is covering the "crash". T\the owner of the station stated he believes that it was hostile. The guest is a former Asst Sec of AF and he said it was probably a training accident especially, if it was at night. He is playing it safe.