{"id":6404,"date":"2024-03-09T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/2024\/03\/09\/three-dead-in-texas-crash-of-us-military-helicopter-onborder-patrol\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T10:56:35","slug":"three-dead-in-texas-crash-of-us-military-helicopter-onborder-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/2024\/03\/09\/three-dead-in-texas-crash-of-us-military-helicopter-onborder-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead in Texas crash of US military helicopter on\nborder patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"62\">\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three dead in Texas crash of US military helicopter on border patrol\" id=\"carouselImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i-invdn-com.investing.com\/news\/news_headline_open_108x81._800x533_L_1419519630.jpg\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"text\"><\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; A National Guard helicopter assigned to patrol duty along the U.S.-Mexico border crashed in Texas on Friday, killing two soldiers and a U.S. Border Patrol agent who were aboard and injuring another soldier, military officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The UH-72 Lakota helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, around 2:50 p.m. (2050 GMT) while conducting aerial &#8220;monitoring and detection&#8221; operations at the border, said U.S. Army Major Ryan Wierzbicki.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash was under investigation, the Army said. Wierzbicki said he had no information about weather conditions at the time of the accident. <\/p>\n<p>The names of the dead and injured were being withheld pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>The chopper was assigned to a federal Southwest border support mission with Joint Task Force North, attached to the army outpost at Fort Bliss, Texas, Wierzbicki said. <\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was not part of Operation Lone Star, a state-directed border enforcement program launched in 2021 by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, using Texas National Guard troops and the Texas Department of Public Safety, the major said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; A National Guard helicopter assigned to patrol duty along the U.S.-Mexico border crashed in Texas on Friday, killing two soldiers and a U.S. Border Patrol agent who were aboard and injuring another soldier, military officials said. The UH-72 Lakota helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, around 2:50 p.m. (2050 GMT) while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}