LOYAL SERVANT: Tsai Ing-wen posthumously promoted Shen Yi-ming to a four-star general and also awarded him the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun with Grand Cordon
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 04, 2020
By: Lee Hsin-fang, Aaron Tu and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Military officers who were killed in a helicopter crash on Thursday are to be posthumously given
Military officials yesterday leave a mourning hall set up at Tri-Service General Hospital in Taipei’s Neihu District after paying their respects to late Chief of the General Staff General Shen Yi-ming and seven other military personnel who were killed in a helicopter crash on Thursday.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
Tsai also issued “three assurances” to boost morale.
A UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter, carrying military personnel to Dongaoling Base (東澳嶺) in Yilan County, went down in the mountains of New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來) on Thursday with 13 people on board. Eight, including Chief of the General Staff General Shen Yi-ming (沈一鳴), died in the crash.
The meeting started with one minute’s silence for the deceased officers — Shen, Political Warfare Bureau Deputy Director Major General Yu Chin-wen (于親文), Major General Hung Hung-chun (洪鴻鈞) of the Office of the Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Intelligence, Major Huang Sheng-hang (黃聖航) of the Office of the Chief of the General Staff, Chief Master Sergent Han Cheng-hung (韓正宏), pilot Lieutenant Colonel Yeh Chien-yi (葉建儀), copilot Captain Liu Chen-fu (劉鎮富) and crew chief Master Sergeant Hsu Hung-pin (許鴻彬). [FULL STORY]
