SDF chopper with 10 members aboard goes missing near Okinawa

SDF chopper with 10 members aboard goes missing near Okinawa

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Yasunori Morishita meets the press at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 6, 2023, after a GSDF UH-60JA multipurpose helicopter with 10 personnel aboard went missing in waters off the southern prefecture of Okinawa earlier in the day.

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