The HH-60 Black Hawk is the medical evacuation variant of the helicopter, which can transport a fully equipped 11-person infantry squad. An Army official told CNN they are expected to arrive Thursday afternoon. “We’re going to wrap our arms around these families, and we’re going to be there with them, not just for the days but the weeks and months and years to come.”Ī military investigative team from Fort Rucker in Alabama will travel to the crash site and look into the cause, Lubas said. Andy Beshear said during the news conference, acknowledging the fallen soldiers’ families. “We’re going to do what we always do,” Kentucky Gov. The names of the deceased will not be released until all their families have been notified, Lubas said. There were other aircraft in the airspace conducting different training flights at the time of the accident, which is why multiple aircraft were able to respond quickly to the accident site.” He said in a statement Saturday that “there were only two aircraft involved in the training flight at the time of the accident. Anthony Hoefler, a spokesman for the 101st Airborne Division, told CNN that earlier reports that a total of four helicopters were taking part in the training exercise were incorrect. The aircraft went down in an open field across from a residential area, so no additional casualties or injuries were reported, he said. John Lubas, deputy commander of the 101st Airborne Division, said during a Thursday morning news conference at Fort Campbell. The helicopters were medical evacuation aircraft, and it’s believed the crash happened while they were flying and not during a medical evacuation drill, Brig. They were taking part “in a routine training mission when the incident occurred,” the base said in a statement on Facebook. in Trigg County near the Tennessee border, officials at nearby Fort Campbell said early Thursday. The two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed around 10 p.m. Nine US service members were killed after two helicopters with the 101st Airborne Division crashed late Wednesday in southwestern Kentucky, officials said.
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