{"id":74478,"date":"2016-04-13T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=74478"},"modified":"2016-04-13T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:46:56","slug":"russian-general-staff-mi-28n-helicopter-crashes-in-syria-due-to-a-technical-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=74478","title":{"rendered":"Russian General Staff: MI-28N helicopter crashes in Syria due to a technical failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA- The General Staff of the Russian Aerospace Forces said on Wednesday that the crash of a Russian Mi-28N military helicopter in Syria on Tuesday had been caused by a technical failure.<\/p>\n<p>A source at the staff said in a statement to TASS News agency that the Russian Mi-28N military helicopter crashed due to a human error as has been indicated in the preliminary conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russia&#8217;s presidency said that it is more likely that the crash was due to a technical malfunction.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Mi-28N military helicopter called \u201cNight Hunter\u201d crashed on Tuesday during a mission in Homs countryside and its two crewmembers had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe helicopter did not come under fire before it crashed\u201d, the Russian Defense ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Mi-28N military helicopter joined the Russian air operation in Syria early this year and contributed significantly to supporting the army\u2019s operations to restore security and stability to Palmyra and al-Qariyatain cities in addition to other areas in Homs countryside.<\/p>\n<p>Qabas\/ Manal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA- The General Staff of the Russian Aerospace Forces said on Wednesday that the crash of a Russian Mi-28N military helicopter in Syria on Tuesday had been caused by a technical failure. A source at the staff said in a statement to TASS News agency that the Russian Mi-28N military helicopter crashed due to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[4781,9485,7221,3410],"class_list":["post-74478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-crash","tag-mi-28n-helicopter","tag-russian-general-staff","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}