{"id":35282,"date":"2013-03-12T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=35282"},"modified":"2013-03-12T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:21:35","slug":"5-american-soldiers-killed-in-copter-crash-in-afghanistan-35282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/5-american-soldiers-killed-in-copter-crash-in-afghanistan-35282\/","title":{"rendered":"5 American soldiers killed in copter crash in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35283\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Copter-Crash-Nationalturk-12.jpg\" alt=\"US helicopter crashed in Afghanistan.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Copter-Crash-Nationalturk-12.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Copter-Crash-Nationalturk-12-280x156.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US helicopter crashed in Afghanistan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Five American soldiers were killed when a helicopter crashed in strife-torn Afghanistan last evening.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, March 12\/Nationalturk \u2013 At least five American soldiers were killed when the helicopter in which they were travelling crashed in strife-torn Afghanistan last evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe helicopter (UH-60 Black Hawk) crash occurred in Southern Afghanistan on Monday evening.\u00a0 The cause of the crash is under investigation,\u201d said a statement issued by NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).<\/p>\n<p>It, however, said initial reports indicate that there was no enemy (Taliban) activity in the area at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, media reports quoting an unnamed US official said all five dead were American soldiers. \u201cThe helicopter crashed in Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar province,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopter crashes are not uncommon in Afghanistan, where Taliban and other militant groups are fighting ISAF and Afghan forces.<\/p>\n<h2>It was deadliest helicopter crash since August 2012<\/h2>\n<p>Monday\u2019s US copter crash was the deadliest helicopter crash in Afghanistan since August 2012, when a US military helicopter crashed during a firefight with Taliban militants, causing death of seven Americans and four Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in March 2012, a helicopter crashed near Kabul, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and four Afghan civilians on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The worst copter crash involving US soldiers in Afghanistan had taken place in August 2011, when Taliban militants shot down a Chinook helicopter in Wardak province of central Afghanistan. At least 30 American soldiers, mostly elite Navy Seals, were killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Afghanistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five American soldiers were killed when a helicopter crashed in strife-torn Afghanistan last evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[2595,47548,47551,47555,43604,42516,43806,4952,11726,47552,4348,47553,14090,47554,591,39349,47550,256,3033,47549,77155,6022,47556],"class_list":["post-35282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-american-soldiers","tag-cause","tag-chinook-helicopter","tag-crashed","tag-deadliest","tag-helicopter","tag-helicopter-crash","tag-investigation","tag-isaf","tag-kabul","tag-kandahar-city","tag-killed","tag-militant-groups","tag-nato","tag-navy-seals","tag-southern-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-turkish-soldiers","tag-uh-60-black-hawk","tag-america","tag-us","tag-wardak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}