What caused the Army Black Hawk helicopter to crash on a navy ship lately?
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training, killing one service member and injuring eight, the Navy said. Service members were rappelling down a rope from the helicopter to the USNS Arctic around 8 p.m. Thursday off the Virginia coast near Fort Story when the crash happened, Navy spokeswoman Lt. J. G. Megan Issac said. The helicopter crashed into the ship’s stern and ended up on its side, Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, commander of the Military Sealift Command, said at a news conference Friday morning at Naval Station Norfolk. A small fire on the ship’s deck was quickly extinguished. The cause of the crash was being investigated. A second helicopter took the injured people to a hospital for treatment. None had life threatening injuries, Issac said. Names of the dead and injured and their service affiliations were not immediately released. “We deeply regret that it occurred, but unfortunately, it is part of the business we do at sea,” Buzby said.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training, killing one service member and injuring eight, the Navy said. Service members were rappelling down a rope from the helicopter to the USNS Arctic around 8 p.m. Thursday off the Virginia coast near Fort Story when the crash happened, Navy spokeswoman Lt. J. G. Megan Issac said. The helicopter crashed into the ship’s stern and ended up on its side, Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, commander of the Military Sealift Command, said at a news conference Friday morning at Naval Station Norfolk. A small fire on the ship’s deck was quickly extinguished. The cause of the crash was being investigated. A second helicopter took the injured people to a hospital for treatment. None had life threatening injuries, Issac said. Names of the dead and injured and their service affiliations were not immediately released. “We deeply regret that it occurred, but unfortunately, it is part of the business we do at sea,” Buzby said.
1 dead, 8 hurt in Black Hawk crash on ship By Andrew Scutro – Staff writer Posted : Saturday Oct 24, 2009 9:42:49 EDT An Army helicopter crashed into the fast combat support ship Arctic during a joint training exercise with SEALs Thursday night off Virginia Beach, Va., killing one service member and injuring eight. The locally based SEALs were training on fast-roping onto the Arctic from the Black Hawk helicopter in a simulated maritime interdiction when the crash occurred. A second Army helicopter in the exercise was able to evacuate the wounded to a nearby hospital. Neither Army nor Navy officials would identify the name or service branch of the casualty. “I am not going to put that out right now,” said Lt. Cmdr. Phil Rosi, spokesman at Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, noting that the killed and injured were all aboard the helicopter, not the ship. He said four of the eight were no longer under medical care, and the four who remain in the hospital do not have life-threatening injurie
