{"id":7868,"date":"2023-07-20T12:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T12:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/families-of-6-canadian-soldiers-killed-in-2020-helicopter-crash-sue-sikorsky\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T12:28:37","slug":"families-of-6-canadian-soldiers-killed-in-2020-helicopter-crash-sue-sikorsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/families-of-6-canadian-soldiers-killed-in-2020-helicopter-crash-sue-sikorsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of 6 Canadian soldiers killed in 2020 helicopter crash sue Sikorsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eeaYcjauh9M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The families of the six Canadian Armed Forces members who were killed when a Cyclone helicopter crashed off the coast of Greece in April 2020 are suing the manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was filed in U.S. Federal Court on July 10 in Pennsylvania, where the Sikorsky CH-148 helicopters were made and tested.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers representing the families said a design flaw caused the electronic flight control system to take over control of the chopper, plunging it into the Ionian Sea nose-first.<\/p>\n<p>Master Cpl. Matthew Cousins, Sub-Lt. Abbigail Cowbrough, Capt. Kevin Hagen, Capt. Brenden MacDonald, Capt. Maxime Miron-Morin and Sub-Lt. Matthew Pyke died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\nSubscribe to CTV News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CTV News:<br \/>\nFor the latest news visit: <br \/>\nFor a full video offering visit the CTV News Network:<\/p>\n<p>CTV News on Facebook:  <br \/>\nCTV News on TikTok:<br \/>\nCTV News on Twitter:  <br \/>\nCTV News on Instagram: <br \/>\nCTV News on Reddit:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nCTV News is Canada&#8217;s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The families of the six Canadian Armed Forces members who were killed when a Cyclone helicopter crashed off the coast of Greece in April 2020 are suing the manufacturer. The suit was filed in U.S. Federal Court on July 10&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2215,414,7084,7083,7085,2754,2755,7081,7080,48,7082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}