Seven peacekeepers, including five Americans, killed in helicopter crash in Egypt
That would have been near South Camp. I did a tour there in 1988 with the 101st ABN.
RIP.
Seven international peacekeepers, including five Americans, were killed and one American was injured in a helicopter crash in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, said officials.
The peacekeepers all belong to the Multinational Force and Observers Mission, a Rome-based international peacekeeping force monitoring the Peninsula and created by both Egypt and Israel in 1979 when both nations signed a peace agreement.
Besides the Americans, an Italian and a French team member were also killed in the incident, which the MFO described as a routine mission. An investigation is underway into the cause of the crash.
The crash occurred in the southern Sinai Peninsula near the island of Tiran, according to an Israeli official. The MFO said it occurred near the vicinity of the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. The five Americans were U.S. National Guardsmen, said the Israeli official.
The American service member who survived was evacuated by the Egyptian military, the official said. The service member was transferred to an Israel Defense Forces aircraft near the Israeli city of Eilat for transport to a hospital.
The Israeli Air Force had scrambled a Blackhawk helicopter with a search-and-rescue team to the site, but that mission turned back when it was learned there were no other survivors.