Five American troops were killed aboard a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed on Tiran Island off the southern coast of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula earlier Thursday, Fox News has confirmed.
A mechanical failure is suspected as the cause of the crash, officials told Fox News. An investigation is underway. There are between 30 and 400 American troops based in the Sinai as part of a U.N.
peacekeeping mission that dates back to the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1979. The island where the crash occurred is located in the Straits of Tiran, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
Israeli and Egyptian officials said earlier Thursday that a helicopter belonging to an international peacekeeping force had.
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