{"id":433379,"date":"2025-09-18T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433379\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:15:12","slug":"washington-helicopter-crash-as-military-lose-contact-over-lake-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433379\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington helicopter crash as military &#8216;lose contact&#8217; over lake | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter is understood to have crashed in Washington State, US. Local authorities have confirmed an emergency investigation has been launched into the sudden loss of communication with the aircraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Thurston County Sheriff&#8217;s Office wrote on social media: &#8220;We have been advised that the military lost contact with a helicopter in the area, and we are working closely with the Joint Base Lewis\u2013McChord (JBLM) to deploy any resources needed to assist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A person on X claims a witness &#8220;reported hearing aloud explosion and stopped hearing the sound of a helicopter. An additional person reported the same.&#8221; The post added that one body has been located but JBLM is not sure how many were in the helicopter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JBLM is a major US military installation near Tacoma in western Washington State. Since 2010, it serves as a key base for both Army and Air Force operations. Spanning over 90,000 acres, JBLM is home to units including the I Corps, 7th Infantry Division, and several aviation and support brigades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Summit Lake is located in southwest Washington State, within Thurston County, near the small town of Tumwater. The lake sits in a relatively low-lying area surrounded by forested land and residential neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the latest news and breaking news visit:<\/strong>\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News &#8211; Latest UK &amp; World News Stories | Express.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay up to date with all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow our social media accounts here on<\/strong> <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/DailyExpress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>facebook.com\/DailyExpress<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and @\u200cDaily_Express<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A helicopter is understood to have crashed in Washington State, US. Local authorities have confirmed an emergency investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1500,6640,10473,2597,12,978,141094,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-433379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-helicopter","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-washington-state","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115224780790752905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433379","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=433379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}