{"id":521725,"date":"2010-04-09T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=16105"},"modified":"2010-04-09T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:45:40","slug":"nato-osprey-chopper-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521725","title":{"rendered":"NATO Osprey Chopper Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL- A U.S. military aircraft crashed early Friday morning in Southern Afghanistan, killing three American service members and one civilian.<\/p>\n<p>A NATO press release said the Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed near the city of Qalat in Zabul Province.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban claimed to have shot down the hybrid helicopter-airplane, but NATO officials said the cause of the crash is unknown and that an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban regularly take responsibility anytime a coalition aircraft crashes, often after a NATO press release has been issued. In this case, the Taliban claimed responsibility long before NATO acknowledged the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopters are an important transportation tool for U.S. and coalitions forces due to the lack of roads and difficult terrain in Afghanistan. The Osprey is typically used for long-range infiltration and resupply missions for US Forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL- A U.S. military aircraft crashed early Friday morning in Southern Afghanistan, killing three American service members and one civilian. A NATO press release said the Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed near the city of Qalat in Zabul Province. The Taliban claimed to have shot down the hybrid helicopter-airplane, but NATO officials said the cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}