3 pilots killed after two US Army helicopters collide mid-air in Alaska
Three US Army pilots were killed and one was injured in Alaska on Thursday when two Apache helicopters returning from a training mission collided in flight, the 11th Airborne Division of the Army said.
Two soldiers were declared dead at the scene and a third died on the way to hospital, the army unit said in a statement.
The injured soldier was being treated at Alaska’s Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
The accident will be investigated by a team from the Army Combat Readiness Center in Alabama, the Division said.
