Two US Army assault helicopters crashed whilst on a education flight in Alaska on Thursday, the army stated, the second one such incident in much less than a month.
The AH-sixty four Apache helicopters “crashed these days close to Healy, Alaska, getting back from a education flight. First responders are at the scene. The incident is beneathneath research and extra statistics approximately the incident could be launched whilst it will become available,” the United States Army`s eleventh Airborne Division stated in a statement.
It wasn’t at once clean the circumstance of these worried withinside the crash.
The coincidence observed a comparable incident in overdue March wherein US Army Blackhawk helicopters crashed all through a education flight in Kentucky, killing all 9 infantrymen on board.
There were more than one different crashes of US army plane in current years, inclusive of some other related to a Black Hawk that killed Tennessee National Guardsmen all through a education flight in Alabama in February.
Four US Marines have been killed all through NATO sports in Norway final 12 months whilst their V-22B Osprey plane went down, likely after hitting a mountain, investigators stated.
And US Navy pilots have been rescued after their T-45C Goshawk jet crashed all through a education exercising in a residential community close to Fort Worth, Texas in 2021. The pilots ejected earlier than the aircraft went down.