{"id":6460,"date":"2026-02-09T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/09\/south-korea-military-helicopter-crash-two-soldiers-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:31:37","slug":"south-korea-military-helicopter-crash-two-soldiers-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/09\/south-korea-military-helicopter-crash-two-soldiers-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Helicopter Crashes in South Korea, Killing Two Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean military officials have reported the crash of an Army helicopter that resulted in the deaths of at least two service members.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the helicopter, an AH-1S Cobra, went down around 11 a.m. local time in an area approximately 55 kilometers northeast of Seoul, the capital of South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during a training exercise involving an emergency landing. So far, there have been no reports of fire or explosion following the helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean military officials have announced the formation of a special investigative committee to determine the precise cause of the accident. The findings will be shared with the media once the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean military AH-1S Cobra helicopter crashed during a training exercise, killing two soldiers. Investigation underway to determine the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}