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Taiwan’s Chief of General Staff killed in helicopter crash - military

2-1-2020 < RT 5 156 words
 


2 Jan, 2020 06:44





Taiwanese Air Force commander and Chief of General Staff Shen Yi-ming was among the eight people who were killed when an army chopper attempted an emergency landing in the mountains, a senior military officials said.



Shen’s death was announced by the Air Force Commander-in-Chief General Hsiung Hou-chi. Shen had earlier been declared missing after an UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter, carrying 13 senior military officials, crash-landed at Tonghou Creek in the nation’s mountainous Wulai District on Thursday.


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