Two US Army helicopters crash in Alaska

(Los Angeles) Two US Army attack helicopters crashed on Thursday during a training flight in Alaska (northwestern United States), the US military said without specifying the number of victims during this accident which is the second of its kind in less than a month.


The two AH-64 Apache helicopters “crashed today near Healy, Alaska while returning from a training flight”, the 11e US Army Airborne Division in a statement.

“Rescuers are on site. The incident is under investigation and more information will be released once available,” she said, without indicating the number of victims.

At the end of March, nine soldiers died when two US Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a night flying exercise in Kentucky.

A Black Hawk helicopter also crashed in mid-February in Alabama, in the southern United States, killing the two occupants on board.

The aircraft, belonging to the Tennessee Air National Guard, was also performing a training flight, near a highway and another highway. The reasons for the crash had not been communicated at the time.


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