{"id":6139,"date":"2023-03-30T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2023-03-30T17:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:45:22","slug":"9-soldiers-dead-after-two-blackhawk-helicopters-crash-in-kentucky-during-training-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=6139","title":{"rendered":"9 soldiers dead after two Blackhawk helicopters crash in Kentucky during training mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nine US service members died after two helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed in southwestern Kentucky on Wednesday, according to a US Army official. The source said there were no survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two HH60 Blackhawk helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed in Trigg County, Kentucky, around 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to a Fort Campbell statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement posted on the base&#8217;s Facebook page detailed that &#8220;crew members were flying two HH60 Blackhawk helicopters during a routine training mission when the incident occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kentucky State Police assisted authorities at Fort Campbell in Trigg County after an &#8220;aircraft incident&#8221; in a rural area near Lancaster Road and Highway 272, according to Kentucky State Police Post 1 spokeswoman Sarah Burgess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine US service members died after two helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed in southwestern Kentucky on Wednesday, according to a US Army official. The source said there were no survivors. Two HH60 Blackhawk helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed in Trigg County, Kentucky, around 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to a Fort Campbell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[2127,2128,1983,2129,2125,2126],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blackhawk-helicopters","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-kentucky","tag-soldiers","tag-training-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}