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Taiwan’s military chief of staff missing after helicopter crash
TAIPEI, Jan 2, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Taiwanese rescuers were searching for the chief of military staff and two others who went missing after a helicopter crashed landed in a mountain Thursday, the defence ministry said.
The UH-60M helicopter carrying 13 people including chief of general staff for the military Shen Yi-ming made the crash landing in the mountains near Taipei for unknown reasons after taking off for a routine mission to visit soldiers in the northeast Yilan country ahead of the lunar new year, it said in a statement.
The ministry said ten people have been located alive while rescuers were searching for Shen, 62, and two others that were still missing.
BSS/AFP/AU/09:25 hrs