{"id":43265,"date":"2021-07-10T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T10:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=43265"},"modified":"2021-07-10T12:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T10:05:03","slug":"another-army-helicopter-crashes-in-chitungwiza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-army-helicopter-crashes-in-chitungwiza","title":{"rendered":"Another Army Helicopter Crashes In Chitungwiza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>An Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crash-landed near oil expresser Surface Wilmar in Chitungwiza on Thursday evening, but details of the accident have been kept under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>NewsDay reports that the chopper reportedly made a sudden U-turn just after crossing Chitungwiza Road into Unit J, and tried to land safely at a nearby aerodrome, but crashed before it could do so.<\/p>\n<p>A witness, Tendai Sauta, said other helicopters immediately flew to the scene to provide rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>Details of fatalities or casualties were still sketchy at the time of going to print last night. Sauta said:<\/p>\n<p><b>_A helicopter has crashed in Sunrise suburb near Surface._<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>_I saw the helicopter from a distance swinging and thought it was a drill. Eventually, it crashed. In a short space of time, three helicopters came and landed to rescue. I could not visit the scene for fear of being arrested for violating COVID-19 curfew._<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Another witness who refused to be named echoed Sauta\u2019s remarks adding that soldiers were chasing people from the scene. Added the witness:<\/p>\n<p><b>_The helicopter partially crashed around Unit J in the late hours of yesterday (Thursday) after developing a fault._<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>_Its pilot probably made a decision to fly the mini army plane back to the aerodrome in the dumpsite area, but unfortunately, the plane crashed before landing._<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The remains were towed away on Friday by an army truck under a heavy police escort.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s crash comes barely three months after another AFZ helicopter, an Agusta Bell 412, crashed on April 23, killing four people on the spot.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: NewsDay<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. An Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crash-landed near oil expresser Surface Wilmar in Chitungwiza on Thursday evening, but details of the accident have been kept under wraps. NewsDay reports that the chopper reportedly made a sudden U-turn just after crossing Chitungwiza Road into Unit J, and tried to land safely at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,4380,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-43265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-helicopter-crash","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another Army Helicopter Crashes In Chitungwiza - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crash-landed near oil expresser Surface Wilmar in Chitungwiza on Thursday even ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-army-helicopter-crashes-in-chitungwiza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Army Helicopter Crashes In Chitungwiza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crash-landed near oil expresser Surface Wilmar in Chitungwiza on Thursday even ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-army-helicopter-crashes-in-chitungwiza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-10T10:50:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-10T10:05:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60e970b5d3639.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"849\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"564\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-army-helicopter-crashes-in-chitungwiza\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-army-helicopter-crashes-in-chitungwiza\",\"name\":\"Another Army Helicopter Crashes In Chitungwiza - 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