What happened to an Army Black Hawk helicopter at the USNS Arctic at around 8 pm Thursday?”
NORFOLK, Va. – 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 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. Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Phil Rosi said the training exercise involved the two Army helicopters and members of a Naval Special Warfare unit. Names of the dead and injured and their service affiliations were not immediately released. The Arctic has returned to Naval Station Norfolk and the damaged helicopter remained aboard the ship.
NORFOLK– One service member was killed and eight others injured after an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed onto the deck of a Navy ship during a training exercise, the Navy said in a news release. The helicopter crashed onto the deck of the USNS Arctic, a Navy oiler, off the coast of Virginia Beach about 8:00 pm Thursday. The crash happened about 20 miles off Fort Story while service members were rappelling down a rope from the helicopter to the ship, according to a Navy spokesperson. The injured service members were evacuated by a second Army helicopter and taken to a local hospital for treatment. The Navy said none had life threatening injuries. The Navy spokesman said the training exercise involved the two Army helicopters and members of a Naval Special Warfare unit. Names of the dead and injured were not immediately released. The Arctic has returned to Naval Station Norfolk and the damaged helicopter remained aboard the ship. The cause of the crash was being investigated. It is n
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 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. Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Phil Rosi said the training exercise involved the two Army helicopters and members of a Naval Special Warfare unit. Names of the dead and injured and their service affiliations were not immediately released. The Arctic has returned to Naval Station Norfolk and the damaged helicopter remained aboard the ship.
