{"id":3173,"date":"2019-05-05T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2023-08-28T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:00:01","slug":"fuerza-armada-de-venezuela-fav-as-532ul-cougar-csar-vip-helicopter-crashes-7-officers-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3173","title":{"rendered":"Fuerza Armada de Venezuela (FAV) AS-532UL Cougar (CSAR) VIP Helicopter crashes, 7 officers killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Seven Venezuelan military officers have been killed when their helicopter crashed while heading to a state where President Nicolas Maduro appeared alongside troops Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2019-May-5-Fuerza-Armada-de-Venezuela-FAV-AS-532UL-Cougar-CSAR-VIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2019-May-5-Fuerza-Armada-de-Venezuela-FAV-AS-532UL-Cougar-CSAR-VIP-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Fuerza Armada de Venezuela (FAV) AS-532UL Cougar\" class=\"wp-image-3174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2019-May-5-Fuerza-Armada-de-Venezuela-FAV-AS-532UL-Cougar-CSAR-VIP-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2019-May-5-Fuerza-Armada-de-Venezuela-FAV-AS-532UL-Cougar-CSAR-VIP-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2019-May-5-Fuerza-Armada-de-Venezuela-FAV-AS-532UL-Cougar-CSAR-VIP-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2019-May-5-Fuerza-Armada-de-Venezuela-FAV-AS-532UL-Cougar-CSAR-VIP.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Fuerza Armada de Venezuela (FAV) AS-532UL Cougar (CSAR) VIP Helicopter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougar helicopter hurtled into a mountain outside Caracas in the early hours of an overcast day in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The armed forces in a statement said the chopper was heading to San Carlos in Cojedes state. That&#8217;s an hour away from a military academy where Maduro appeared early Saturday overseeing training exercises in a display of confidence in his armed forces following a week of intrigue that saw a small cadre of soldiers turn against him in an opposition-led uprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On board were two lieutenant colonels as well as five lower-ranking officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement didn&#8217;t say if the chopper was part of the presidential delegations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>CARACAS, Venezuela \u2013 Associated Press News &#8211; 5 May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Venezuelan military officers have been killed when their helicopter crashed while heading to a state where President Nicolas Maduro appeared alongside troops Saturday. The Cougar helicopter hurtled into a mountain outside Caracas in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,1660,1662,1686,1724,1,16],"tags":[3208,3210,3207,3206,2293,3205,3209],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}