{"id":538316,"date":"2026-03-22T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:27:08","slug":"six-dead-as-qatar-military-helicopter-crashes-after-technical-malfunction-military-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538316\/","title":{"rendered":"Six dead as Qatar military helicopter crashes after \u2018technical malfunction\u2019 | Military News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKINGBREAKING, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Seven people were on board, with Qatar\u2019s interior ministry saying specialised operations continue \u200cto find \u200bthe last missing \u200bperson.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026<\/p>\n<p>At least six people on board a Qatari military helicopter have been killed in a crash in the Gulf state\u2019s waters after a \u201ctechnical malfunction\u201d, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>Seven people were on board, with Qatar\u2019s interior ministry on Sunday saying specialised operations continue \u200cto find the last missing person.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>The ministry did not provide further details on the cause of the crash or the identities of those on board.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Qatar\u2019s defence ministry posted on X that the helicopter had a technical malfunction during a \u201croutine duty\u201d, which led to its crash in the territorial waters of the country.<\/p>\n<p>No immediate information was available on the cause beyond the technical malfunction, and there was no indication that the crash was the result of hostile action.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred amid heightened regional tensions. Qatar has faced repeated drone and missile strikes since the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKINGBREAKING, Seven people were on board, with Qatar\u2019s interior ministry saying specialised operations continue \u200cto find \u200bthe last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,129,4379,3,15275,452,453],"class_list":["post-538316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news","tag-qatar","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}