{"id":1985840,"date":"2023-07-29T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-crew-members-missing-after-military-helicopter-is-ditched-over-the-pacific\/"},"modified":"2023-07-29T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T18:17:34","slug":"four-crew-members-missing-after-military-helicopter-is-ditched-over-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-crew-members-missing-after-military-helicopter-is-ditched-over-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Four crew members missing after military helicopter crash in Pacific."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffour-crew-members-missing-after-military-helicopter-is-ditched-over-the-pacific%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1985840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Four \u2064Crew Members Missing After Military Helicopter Is Ditched Over the Pacific<\/h2>\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-laughs-when-asked-about-north-korea-missile-launch\/\" title=\"Biden laughs when asked about North Korea missile launch\">joint military exercises<\/a> with the United States, an\u200d Australian army helicopter\u200b made a dramatic emergency \u200dlanding on water, leaving four \u200cair crew members missing. The incident \u200coccurred\u2064 near Lindeman \u200dIsland, a popular tourist resort in\u2063 the Pacific Ocean,\u2064 off\u2063 the coast of Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter, which was participating in the Talisman Sabre\u200d exercise,\u2064 went down at approximately 11\u2062 p.m. on\u2064 Friday. A \u200dsearch operation involving personnel from the United\u200c States, Canada, and Australia is currently underway to locate\u200c the \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-pilot-says-navy-helicopter-crash-was-possible-mechanical-failure\/\" title=\"Fmr. pilot says Navy helicopter crash was possible mechanical failure\">missing crew<\/a>, all of whom\u2063 are Australian men.<\/p>\n<p>Debris believed to\u2062 be \u2062from the helicopter has\u2063 been recovered, according to Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Douglas McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>The Talisman \u2062Sabre exercise, a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-crew-members-missing-after-military-helicopter-is-ditched-over-the-pacific\/\" title=\"Four crew members missing after military helicopter crash in Pacific.\">biennial joint military exercise involving 13 nations<\/a> and \u200bover\u2062 30,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soldiers-mothers-group-accuses-russia-of-abandoning-troops-in-ukraine-border-village\/\" title=\"Soldiers' Mothers Group Accuses Russia of Abandoning Troops in Ukraine Border Village\">000 military personnel<\/a>,\u2063 is primarily \u2062based in Queensland. Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles emphasized the seriousness and risks associated with such exercises, stating, &#8220;As we desperately hope for better news \u200cduring the course of this\u2063 day, we are\u2063 reminded \u2064about the gravity of the \u200bact \u200dwhich comes with wearing our nation\u2019s uniform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Exercise Director Australian Army Brigadier Damian Hill announced \u2062that the \u200cexercise was temporarily postponed \u2062but later\u200c resumed with limited\u200c activity. As a \u2063precautionary measure, Australia grounded \u2063its Taipan \u200bfleet.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second emergency involving an Australian Taipan helicopter this year. In March, another Taipan ditched into the \u200bsea off the coast of New South Wales during a nighttime\u200c counter-terrorism training exercise. Fortunately, all 10 passengers and crew members were rescued.<\/p>\n<h3>International \u2062Support and Tributes<\/h3>\n<p>U.S. \u2064Defense Secretary Lloyd \u2064Austin, who was in Brisbane for a meeting, expressed\u2063 his condolences and praised \u2063the \u2062dedication and service of \u200cthe missing air crew. \u200dAustin, along \u2064with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, paid tribute to the crew at the\u2064 beginning of\u200d a meeting with their Australian \u2062counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Defense Minister Marles thanked the United \u200cStates for its contribution to the ongoing \u2063search-and-rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<h3>Replacement Plans for the Taipan Fleet<\/h3>\n<p>In January, Australia \u2063announced that it \u2063would retire its fleet of Taipan helicopters by \u2062December 2024, \u206413 years \u2062earlier than planned, due to reliability issues. The European-built Taipans will be replaced \u2063by 40 U.S. Black Hawks, which have a\u2063 proven\u200d track record of reliability, according to Marles.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u200c the arrival of \u200dthe\u200d first \u200bTaipan\u2064 helicopter in\u200d Australia in 2007, the fleet has faced numerous problems. In 2019, the entire fleet was grounded to address an issue with the tail rotor blades, \u2062and a year later, 27 \u2063Taipans were grounded due to problems with the doors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The\u2063 Western Journal has reviewed this\u2062 Associated Press story and \u200bmay have altered\u2064 it prior to publication to \u2062ensure that it meets \u200bour editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-4-air-crew-members-missing-australian-army-helicopter-ditched-off-australias-coast\/\">Four Crew Members \u200dMissing After\u200b Military Helicopter Is Ditched Over the Pacific<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The\u200b Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four air crew members were reported missing when an Australian army helicopter crashed into Queensland state waters during joint military drills with the US. The incident occurred near Lindeman Island, a popular tourist spot in the Great Barrier Reef. Ditching, an intentional water landing, was performed by the MRH-90 Taipan helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1985841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}