Army releases identities of soldiers killed in Alaska helicopter crash
The Military has launched the identities of the three troopers killed on Thursday in a helicopter crash.
Two AH-64 Apache helicopters collided in midair on Thursday close to Healy, Alaska and left three troopers lifeless and an extra injured. The helicopters had been from Fort Wainwright, which is predicated close to Fairbanks.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christopher Robert Eramo, 39; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kyle D. McKenna, 28; and Warrant Officer 1 Stewart Duane Wayment, 32, had been all killed within the crash.
In keeping with a press launch from the Military, the fourth soldier was listed in secure situation at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
ARMY GROUNDS HELICOPTER UNITS AMID SAFETY STAND-DOWN FOLLOWING DEADLY COLLISIONS
On this photograph launched by the U.S. Military, AH-64D Apache Longbow assault helicopters from the first Assault Battalion, Twenty fifth Aviation Regiment, fly over a mountain vary close to Fort Wainwright, Alaska, on June 3, 2019. The U.S. Military says two Military helicopters much like those on this image crashed Thursday, April 27, 2023, close to Healy, Alaska, killing three troopers and injuring a fourth. The helicopters had been getting back from a coaching flight to Fort Wainwright, based mostly close to Fairbanks. (Cameron Roxberry/U.S. Military by way of AP)
The helicopters were returning to Fort Wainwright after a coaching mission once they collided almost 50 miles east of Healy.
“The battalion is devastated and mourning the lack of three of our greatest,” mentioned Lt. Col. Matthew C. Carlsen, the 1-Twenty fifth AB commander. “Our loss, nonetheless, can’t be in comparison with the struggling and loss which the relations of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Chris Eramo, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kyle McKenna and Warrant Officer 1 Stewart ‘Stew’ Wayment are experiencing.”
“Your complete crew has come collectively to focus our ideas, prayers, and actions to supply and maintain them with no matter consolation and help they want at the moment, and I promise that this may proceed lengthy into the long run,” Carlsen mentioned. “Our mission now’s to give attention to the households, the survivors and to honor and cherish their reminiscences. Chris, Kyle, and Stew will endlessly be ‘Little Bears,’ ‘Vikings,’ and ‘ToughOnes’ of the Arctic Assault.”
MILITARY HELICOPTER CRASH IN AK INJURES 2 SOLDIERS
FILE – U.S. Military Apache helicopters park at a coaching discipline in Yeoncheon, close to the border with North Korea on March 13, 2023. (AP Photograph/Ahn Younger-joon)
A U.S. Army crew from Alabama is investigating the midair collision.
The Military on Friday grounded helicopter models till they full a compulsory security coaching after a collection of helicopter crashes killed 12 troopers previously a number of weeks.
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Two Black Hawk helicopters crashed outdoors a Kentucky navy base in March, killing 9 Military troopers. On Friday, the Military introduced a force-wide stand down till aviation models full necessary security coaching. (AP Photograph/Boris Grdanoski, File)
In March, nine soldiers in Kentucky died when two Black Hawk helicopters collided.
Fox Information’ Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
