Two U.S. military personnel were recovering after being rescued from an undisclosed location near the Strait of Hormuz after their U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter a went down on Monday. File Photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI | License Photo
June 9 (UPI) -- Two U.S. Army helicopter crew members were rescued and brought to safety within two hours after their Apache gunship crashed near the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. President Donald Trump said early Tuesday that the two service personnel were "fine" and promised a report on the incident would be released in the next 24 hours or so.
U.S. Central Command said the pair were in a stable condition with spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins telling NBC News that a Task Force 59 unmanned surface vessel found and recovered the soldiers -- the first time the U.S. military had carried out such an operation with a drone boat.
A source told the New York Times that it was yet to be established whether the aircraft came under Iranian fire, sustained a technical malfunction or encountered another issue.
