Two US Army attack helicopters crashed while on a training flight in Alaska on Thursday, the US Army said, the second such incident in less than a month.
The US Armys statement said that the AH-64 Apache helicopters crashed near Healy, Alaska, returning from a training flight. First responders are on the scene.
The Washington Post quoted military officials as saying that three pilots were killed after two Apache helicopters crashed in central Alaska while returning from a training mission.
The accident followed a similar incident in late March in which two US Army Blackhawk helicopters crashed during a training flight in Kentucky, killing all nine soldiers on board.
There have been multiple other crashes of US military aircraft in recent years, including another involving a Black Hawk that killed two Tennessee National Guardsmen during a training flight in Alabama in February.
Four US Marines were killed during NATO exercises in Norway last year when their V-22B Osprey aircraft went down, possibly after hitting a mountain, investigators said.
Two US Navy pilots were also rescued after their T-45C Goshawk jet crashed during a training exercise in a residential neighbourhood near Fort Worth, Texas in 2021. The pilots ejected before the plane went down.
