US Army helicopter crash-lands on Navy ship off southern Japanese island of Okinawa; 7 injured
The Canadian Press
By Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press
TOKYO - A U.S. Army helicopter crashed while landing on a Navy ship during training Wednesday off Japan's southern island of Okinawa, injuring seven people and damaging the aircraft, officials said.
The H-60 helicopter made a hard landing on the USNS Red Cloud cargo vessel around 20 miles (30 kilometres) east of Okinawa, U.S. Forces Japan said in a statement, adding that the cause was under investigation. Okinawa is home to most of the tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Japan.
The injured were transported to a Navy hospital, the statement said. Their conditions were not available.
Two of the seven injured belong to a Japanese special response unit called the Central Readiness Force, who were participating in the training, according to Japan's Ground Self-Defence Force. One had a broken bone and the other a cut, but no specifics were given.
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