{"id":194656,"date":"2025-12-26T03:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/helicopter-crash-kills-5-on-mount-kilimanjaro-during-reported-rescue-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:46:22","slug":"helicopter-crash-kills-5-on-mount-kilimanjaro-during-reported-rescue-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/helicopter-crash-kills-5-on-mount-kilimanjaro-during-reported-rescue-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter crash kills 5 on Mount Kilimanjaro during reported rescue &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A helicopter crashed on Tanzania&#8217;s Mount\u00a0Kilimanjaro, killing five people, the civil aviation authority said on Dec. 25, while local media reported that the aircraft was on a medical rescue mission.<br \/>Those killed were identified as a guide and a doctor \u2013 both Tanzanians \u2013 the Zimbabwean pilot and two tourists from the Czech Republic, the Tanzania National Parks said in a statement.<br \/>The helicopter crashed near the mountain&#8217;s Barafu Camp on Dec. 24, Tanzania&#8217;s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.<br \/>The Mwananchi newspaper and East Africa TV, citing\u00a0Kilimanjaro\u00a0region&#8217;s head of police, reported that the helicopter was on a medical rescue mission.<br \/>Mount\u00a0Kilimanjaro, Africa&#8217;s highest peak, is nearly 6,000 meters (20,000 feet) above sea level.<br \/>The crash happened between 4,670 and 4,700 meters, Mwananchi reported.<br \/>About 50,000 tourists climb\u00a0Kilimanjaro\u00a0annually.<br \/><em>(Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Saad Sayeed and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiogFBVV95cUxNN1ZvamxKNFJQWTRDZXd4a1phT04weGZVYmxKMTQxQVZCVWlYR2dRMmxtWmRPNFNheF84aTJoc2hyNjJ5N0lraVduSzA0NUxjVnI1R21tczJ6bXJrT2xJRndhZmR4dHUtV1FSZzJab3Y0cFo4SG9jdkdTb1JKeE1aZE82R0lzVmgzZGlvNVJPUm82UkhFRDdCZUtZbGxqRWN0cUE?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A helicopter crashed on Tanzania&#8217;s Mount\u00a0Kilimanjaro, killing five people, the civil aviation authority said on Dec. 25, while local media reported that the aircraft was on a medical rescue mission.Those killed were identified as a guide and a doctor \u2013 both Tanzanians \u2013 the Zimbabwean pilot and two tourists from the Czech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}