{"id":430981,"date":"2024-09-22T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=430981"},"modified":"2024-09-22T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:27:28","slug":"updf-launches-investigation-into-military-chopper-crash-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/updf-launches-investigation-into-military-chopper-crash-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDF launches investigation into military chopper crash in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ugandan military on Friday announced investigations into a military\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hiiraan.com\/news4\/2024\/Sept\/198100\/international_peacekeepers_others_survive_military_helicopter_crash_in_somalia.aspx\">helicopter crash<\/a>\u00a0in Somalia where four peacekeepers survived the accident, a spokesperson said here.<\/p>\n<p>Felix Kulayigye, Uganda\u2019s military spokesperson, told Xinhua over the telephone that investigations will establish the cause of the crash of the Ugandan military transport chopper that went down shortly after leaving Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Kulayigye said the chopper was flying from Mogadishu to Belidoogle airfield, about 90 km northwest of the Somali capital, withfour people on board.\u201cThe aircraft [chopper] crash landed and all on board are safe [survived]. Whenever there is an air accident there must be an investigation,\u201d said Kulayigye.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda is one of the troop-contributing countries to the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ugandan military on Friday announced investigations into a military\u00a0helicopter crash\u00a0in Somalia where four peacekeepers survived the accident, a spokesperson said here. Felix Kulayigye, Uganda\u2019s military spokesperson, told Xinhua over the telephone that investigations will establish the cause of the crash of the Ugandan military transport chopper that went down shortly after leaving Mogadishu, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":430982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-430981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430983,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430981\/revisions\/430983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}