{"id":301572,"date":"2025-07-29T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301572\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:56:15","slug":"german-military-helicopter-crashes-into-river-in-saxony-air-force-spokesperson-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301572\/","title":{"rendered":"German military helicopter crashes into river in Saxony, air force spokesperson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  By&amp;nbsp<b>Euronews<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            29\/07\/2025 &#8211; 15:34 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>A helicopter belonging to the German military crashed into the Mulde River in Saxony on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Air Force said.<\/p>\n<p>There are no reports yet about possible deaths or injuries, the Leipzig District Fire Brigade said.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was reportedly on a training flight and an investigation into the cause of the accident is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>According to air traffic control, the helicopter disappeared from radar between 10:00-10:30 am, the local fire brigade said.<\/p>\n<p>Paddlers in the river informed police around 11:30 am that they had seen helicopter parts in the water, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Federal, state, and water police are currently on scene and divers have also been called in, but emergency crews say accessing the wreck of the helicopter is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Large quantities of kerosene leaked into the river around the site of the wreck, prompting 50 emergency personnel to contain the leak before the salvage operation could begin.<\/p>\n<p>The Bundeswehr has set up a restricted military zone around the crash site, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspEuronews Published on 29\/07\/2025 &#8211; 15:34 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A helicopter belonging to the German military crashed into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,529,21011,111389],"class_list":{"0":"post-301572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-river","13":"tag-saxony"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114937344001989084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}