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United States President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that two US helicopter crew members were “fine” following their rescue by a US Navy drone after their Apache gunship went down in the Iran-controlled Strait of Hormuz.
The US military’s Central Command (Centcom) said the AH-64 Apache went down at around 3am local time on Tuesday (4am PKT) near the coast of Oman while patrolling regional waters. It gave no reason for the crash.
The pair were rescued within about two hours and were in stable condition, Centcom said.
Centcom told Reuters the rescue was carried out by a drone but did not specify the model.
