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Estaba leyendo un poco las agencias y me encontré con esta noticia:
Iraqi army helicopter crash kills seven, military says
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi army helicopter crashed during a routine flight on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, a military statement and Iraqi air force officers said.
The Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter went down near the southern province of Kut, the statement said. Two pilots and five army officers were killed, Iraqi air force officers told Reuters.
A technical malfunction caused the crash, the military statement said.
Iraq is slowly rebuilding its air force, once one of the world’s largest, after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed, editing by Larry King
Lo subo literal para que podáis ver a qué me refiero. Se informa que un helicóptero irakí Mi-17 se estrelló. Hasta ahí nada que criticar.
El problema es el de siempre, la coletilla...
The Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter went down near the southern province of Kut, the statement said. Two pilots and five army officers were killed, Iraqi air force officers told Reuters.
Un helicóptero hecho en Rusia, dicen, se estrelló en la provincia de Kut. Evidentemente se aporta el dato de que fue construído en Rusia aunque no tenga la menor importancia para el accidente.
Podemos ver otro caso para entender de qué hablo. El mismo medio y una situación parecida:
Indian military helicopter crashes near China border, seven dead
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian airforce helicopter crashed in a remote mountain region near the border with China on Friday, killing all seven personnel on board, officials said.
The Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter was ferrying military officials to a forward post in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, defense spokesman Suneet Newton said.
India is trying to modernize its airforce with new planes and helicopters but the procurement process has been slow.
Newton said the cause of Friday’s crash was not known immediately. India has also been expanding its military infrastructure in the area to narrow the gap with China which has superior road and air links.
Reporting by Zarir Hussain in Guwahati, Rupam Jain in New Delhi, Editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Michael Perry
Y vemos de nuevo lo mismo ...
The Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter was ferrying military officials to a forward post in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, defense spokesman Suneet Newton said.
La coletilla, de nuevo, remarcando que el helicóptero accidentado se hizo en Rusia pese a que, repito, no tiene la menor trascendencia para la noticia.
Lo que podemos es comparar como se trata una noticia parecida cuando el helicóptero es de fabricación estadounidense, por ejemplo ...
Saudi military helicopter crashes in Yemen, killing 12 officers
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi helicopter came down during military operations in Yemen on Tuesday, killing 12 officers aboard, Saudi media reported, and a Yemeni defense ministry news website said the cause was friendly fire.
The death toll was one of the largest in a single incident involving Saudi forces since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen’s war in 2015 to try to roll back the dominant Houthi group and restore President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi to power.
The official Saudi news agency SPA quoted a statement from the Saudi-led coalition as saying the Black Hawk came down in Marib province, east of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa.
“As a result, four officers and eight non-commissioned officers from the Saudi armed forces were martyred,” it said, adding the possible cause of the crash was under investigation.
But the Yemeni defense ministry’s 26 September news website quoted an officer in Yemen’s military high command as saying the helicopter was shot down 5 km (3 miles) from its landing spot because of “a technical fault that caused a misreading of the air defense system, which resulted in the destruction of the plane before it landed”.
It provided no details on who fired at the helicopter.
The Houthi-run Saba news agency said the helicopter crashed in an area known as al-Tadaween, northeast of the Marib provincial capital, and that 13 officers and soldiers had died.
In September 2015, a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis at a coalition military base in Marib killed more than 60 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
The Saudi-led coalition has recently made gains against the Houthis in western Yemen but fighting on other fronts, including Marib, has been static, with little ground changing hands.
The Houthis seized much of northern Yemen including Sanaa in a series of lightning military operations that began in 2014, eventually forcing Hadi to flee.
The coalition accuses Iran of trying to use the Houthis to expand its influence in Yemen, one of the poorest Arab countries. Iran denies this. The Houthis regard their move on Sanaa as a revolution against corruption.
Reporting by Ali Abdelaty, Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mukhashaf; writing by Eric Knecht and Sami Aboudi; editing by Mark Heinrich
Podéis leer la noticia de arriba a abajo o de izquierda a derecha que no encontraréis quien construyó el Blackhawk saudí que se estrelló.
Este es el pan nuestro de cada día que genera una pila de tontucos que leen "hecho en Rusia" y no leen "hecho en EEUU" en casos similares y entonces se quedan con el mantra de que los helicópteros rusos son peores o se accidentan más cuando la realidad no es esa.
He citado una agencia pero esto es común a los medios estadounidenses y europeos.
En mí opinión esto se debe a cuestiones culturales, educación, de quienes escriben estas informaciones que llevan mamando ese modelo desde que nacieron y sin querer, seguramente, hacen diferencias en cosas tan inocentes como rellenar una noticia de prensa... y así nos va.
