U.S. chopper crashes near North Korea border: Reports

[steve2470]

Source: CBS News

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA A U.S. military helicopter crashed near the North Korean border Tuesday, according to the AFP news agency, which cites a South Korean defense official.

AFP says there were no casualties and the cause is being investigated, though the crash happened as joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises continue. Those exercises have led to a torrent of belligerent rhetoric from North Korea.

The South Korean news agency Yonhap is saying only that a military helicopter crashed near an army base north of Seoul.

The helicopter was a UH-60 Black Hawk, AFP says. It came down in South Korea's Cheolwon county, which touches on the border with North Korea, a defense ministry spokesman in Seoul told AFP.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57579764/u.s-chopper-crashes-near-north-korea-border-reports/

[davidpdx]

1. When Yanhap is listed as the source

It is better to link from their site as it is more accurate. Pretty much for any news for North and South Korea Yonhap will be better than the MSM in the US.

CBS misspelled where this actually took place which is shoddy journalism.

(LEAD) No injuries reported in U.S. military chopper crash
CHERWON, South Korea, April 16 (Yonhap) - A U.S. military helicopter crashed while landing at a front-line Army units Tuesday, but all of three crew members and 13 U.S. soldiers on board escaped unscathed, police and military officials said Sikorsky's CH-53 transport helicopter crashed onto a military shooting range in Cherwon, 88 kilometers north of Seoul, while landing after completing a three-hour training exercise along with five other helicopters, according to military officials.

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2013/04/16/0200000000AEN20130416006251320.HTML

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cheorwon&hl=en&sll=37.842586,127.365274&sspn=1.247136,2.469177&hnear=Cheorwon-gun,+Gangwon-do,+South+Korea&t=m&z=10

Edit: Actually rereading the two, CBS made quite a few factual errors.

[steve2470]

2. thanks for the info ! :) nt

[Plucketeer]

5. MSM is DOA

"
It is better to link from their site as it is more accurate. Pretty much for any news for North and South Korea Yonhap will be better than the MSM in the US."

That's NOT surprising......

A demented Neanderthal with stone tools and a cave wall to carve on, would be capable of better news coverage and delivery than what passes for our MSM of late.

[napoleon_in_rags]

3. And 44 years ago today...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_EC-121_shootdown_incident

[Renew Deal]

4. "Near" is a relative term

[davidpdx]

6. The problem is that is a big area

Look at the map I posted. So, yes it is hard to tell which part of that area it crashed.

Of course the media actually spelling it right would have helped a great deal.