The US military announced that three pilots were killed when two of its attack helicopters crashed during their participation in military exercises in Alaska, in the second accident of its kind in less than a month. An army statement stated that two AH-64 Apache helicopters crashed near Healy, Alaska, while returning from a training flight, and rescue teams went to the site. 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. Nine soldiers were killed last month in the crash of two Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters during a routine night training mission over Kentucky. Several other accidents involving US military aircraft have been recorded in recent years, including the killing of two US National Guard personnel in a Black Hawk crash in Tennessee during a training exercise in Alabama last February. Four US Marines were killed last year during a training exercise in Norway when their V-22B Osprey crashed into a mountain, investigators said. Two Navy pilots were rescued after their T-45C Goshawk crashed during a training exercise over a residential neighborhood near Forth Worth, Texas, in 2021, and the two pilots managed to parachute out.
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