{"id":321948,"date":"2017-08-16T18:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T17:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/five-troops-feared-dead-in-aircraft-crash-off-hawaii-coast\/"},"modified":"2017-08-16T18:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T17:11:32","slug":"five-troops-feared-dead-in-aircraft-crash-off-hawaii-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/five-troops-feared-dead-in-aircraft-crash-off-hawaii-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Five troops feared dead in aircraft crash off Hawaii coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A US Army helicopter has went down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii during a training exercise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Coast Guard and military crews are searching for five crew members of a UH-60 Black Hawk, the Coast Guard said in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at Wheeler Army Airfield near Honolulu reported losing communications with the crew on Tuesday night around 10 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Responding teams reported spotting a debris field about 2 miles (3 km) west of Kaena Point, Oahu.<\/p>\n<p>The UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-bladed, twin-engine utility helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the second major crash the US military has experienced this month.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, three US service members died after a US military aircraft crashed off the east coast of Australia. Twenty-three of the 26 personnel aboard the MV-22 Osprey were rescued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was in Australia for a joint military training exercise held by the US and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/08\/16\/531965\/US-troops-feared-dead-in-aircraft-crash-off-Hawaii-coast\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Army helicopter has went down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii during a training exercise. US Coast Guard and military crews are searching for five crew members of a UH-60 Black Hawk, the Coast Guard said in a news release Wednesday. Officials at Wheeler Army Airfield near Honolulu reported losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}