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LONDON — <\/span>Britain\u2019s Royal Navy said Wednesday that three of its members died in a helicopter crash earlier in southwest England during a training exercise.<\/p>\n The helicopter went down in a field in the county of Devon in England just before 4 a.m.<\/p>\n The navy\u2019s head General Gwyn Jenkins, said in a statement that he was \u201cdeeply saddened to share the news that three crewmembers onboard a Royal Navy Merlin Mk4 helicopter have died after it crashed in the early hours of this morning near Sourton, Devon.\u201d<\/p>\n He said an investigation is under way and further updates will be provided in due course. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what caused the incident.<\/p>\n Merlin helicopters, such as the Merlin Mk4 involved in the incident, usually have a crew of four and can carry up to 24 troops. The Merlin helicopter is primarily used for anti-submarine warfare and is used for search and rescue, cargo transfers and maritime patrol, according to the Royal Navy\u2019s website.<\/p>\n The Ministry of Defence said the families of the service personnel killed have been informed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source abcnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LONDON — Britain\u2019s Royal Navy said Wednesday that three of its members died in a helicopter crash earlier in southwest England during a training exercise. The helicopter went down in a field in the county of Devon in England just before 4 a.m. The navy\u2019s head General Gwyn Jenkins, said in a statement that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1946623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[350148,21791,479643,449736,22814],"class_list":["post-2443255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-accidents","tag-general-news","tag-helicopter-crashes","tag-military-and-defense","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Page-Unavailable-ABC-News.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443256,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443255\/revisions\/2443256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}