{"id":405088,"date":"2026-08-13T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:24:10","slug":"us-soldiers-killed-near-austin-texas-after-helicopter-crashes-into-grass-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405088\/","title":{"rendered":"US soldiers killed near Austin, Texas, after helicopter crashes into grass field"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two US soldiers have been killed in a horrific helicopter crash.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a military helicopter crashed into a grass field in Salado, Texas, about 100 kilometres from Austin.<\/p>\n

Bell County Sheriff Office spokesperson Cliff Coleman said two people were onboard and they were pronounced dead around 1.30pm local time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt crashed into a field, and you could tell it was a violent crash,\u201d he said, as reported by NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two soldiers have not yet been identified and their names will be withheld for 24 hours while families are notified.<\/p>\n

Texas Governor Greg Abbott offered his condolences to the families of the soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, an Apache helicopter crashed in Bell County during Fort Hood operations, killing two members of our military,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoin Cecilia and me in prayer for their families and the entire Fort Hood community.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas is forever indebted to those who serve our state and nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was based out of Fort Hood.<\/p>\n

The crash sparked a large grass fire.<\/p>\n

Images provided by Coleman showed firefighters examining burning debris amid a large patch of charred grass, with smoke billowing from the scene.<\/p>\n

Several local fire departments responded to the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two US soldiers have been killed in a horrific helicopter crash. On Wednesday, a military helicopter crashed into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,3416,3703],"class_list":["post-405088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}