{"id":1355452,"date":"2026-02-09T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/military-helicopter-crashes-in-south-korea-two-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:29:17","slug":"military-helicopter-crashes-in-south-korea-two-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/military-helicopter-crashes-in-south-korea-two-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Military helicopter crashes in South Korea, two killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In South Korea, an AH-1S Cobra military helicopter crashed in Gapyeong County, Gyeonggi Province, on February 9. The accident killed 2 servicemen on board.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20260209005653315\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yonhap<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to the military, the helicopter of the 15th Aviation Group of the South Korean army crashed at 11:04 after taking off for a training flight that began at 09:45.<\/p>\n<p> Two warrant officers on board were taken to hospitals in cardiac arrest, but they could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p> Authorities said there was no fire or explosion in the crash. The exact cause of the helicopter crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the flight was conducted as part of exercises aimed at practicing emergency landing procedures for crew members.<\/p>\n<p> After the crash, the South Korean army suspended all flights of AH-1S helicopters and created a special commission to investigate the circumstances of the accident.<\/p>\n<p> South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-baek, who is visiting Saudi Arabia, was informed of the incident and instructed to ensure a prompt response to the situation.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-ssha-pid-chas-zlotu-rozbyvsia-pryvatnyy-litak-usi-detali-intsydentu\/\">in the USA, a private plane crashed during takeoff at the Bangor airport in Maine<\/a> . The incident occurred in a severe snowstorm, with 8 people on board.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In South Korea, an AH-1S Cobra military helicopter crashed in Gapyeong County, Gyeonggi Province, on February 9. The accident killed 2 servicemen on board. This is reported by Yonhap . According to the military, the helicopter of the 15th Aviation Group of the South Korean army crashed at 11:04 after taking off for a training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1355380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76875,76870,76871],"class_list":["post-1355452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-world","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}