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Video recorded by bystanders appears to show the harrowing moment when the two aircraft crashed into one another, causing a fiery explosion over the nation's capital. Watch it above.
On March 29, 2023, two Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, [1] both operated by the 101st Airborne Division, collided over Fort Campbell in Trigg County, Kentucky, United States. [2] [3] All nine servicemembers were killed. [4] The black boxes belonging to the helicopters were found, as well as night-vision goggles used by the pilots during ...
An aviation safety team from the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center has confirmed that the black boxes from the two Black Hawk helicopters involved in last week's deadly crash have been recovered ...
Two U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters crashed during a training incident in Kentucky on Wednesday night, Army Base Fort Campbell said.
The Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk was a private-venture, prototype attack helicopter built in 1970 with Sikorsky Aircraft research and development (R&D) funds. A tandem, two-seat aircraft designed around the dynamic drive and rotor systems of the Sikorsky S-61, it was designed to serve as an attack helicopter or to transport up to eight troops into combat.
The US Army has used the ATAS variant on its OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in the air-to-air role.. In a 19 November 1996 demonstration, a Stinger (ATAS) Block-1 missile was launched from an OH-58D at the Yuma Proving Ground and successfully destroyed a QUH-1 drone helicopter deploying countermeasures at a range greater than 2.8 miles (4,500 m).
US Army officials said they are still notifying the soldiers’ families
During the Gulf War in 1991, the UH-60 participated in the largest air assault mission in U.S. Army history with over 300 helicopters involved. Two UH-60s (89-26214 and 78–23015) were shot down, both on 27 February 1991, while performing Combat Search and Rescue of other downed aircrews, an F-16C pilot and the crew of a MEDEVAC UH-1H that ...