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The chief of the general staff Gen. Shen Yi-ming and seven other people died in a crash in the mountains outside of Taipei on 2nd January 2020. TAIPEI—Taiwan’s top military official was killed in an air force helicopter crash Thursday morning in which seven other people died, the Defense Ministry said. Five people survived the crash in mountains outside the capital. The 62-year-old general and his entourage were on a routine mission to visit soldiers in northeast Yilan county when the incident happened.