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U.S. Military helicopter missing
Posted on Wednesday, 28 April 2024 @ 13:00:05 CDT by ComPilots |
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Anonymous writes "
A US Army helicopter with 3 soldiers aboard vanished during a training flight in bad weather, and a search was under way Tuesday in a swampy, wooded region, authorities said.
The UH-60 Black Hawk was on a flight from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Florence when it was reported missing about 21:50 Monday. It wasn't known if the helicopter crashed or made an emergency landing, but there had been no distress signals, Lt. Col. Billy Buckner, a spokesman for the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, said Tuesday morning.
There were also no signals from radios that crew members carry on their flight survival vests, Buckner said. The missing Black Hawk was accompanied by a second helicopter, which landed at the town of Dillon near the North Carolina state line, Buckner said. He didn't immediately know why its crew landed or if they knew anything about the missing helicopter.
The missing Black Hawk was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, and left Fort Bragg about 20:30. Its last known position was 20 miles northeast of Florence in northeastern South Carolina, Buckner said.
The search area is swampy, thickly vegetated terrain along the Pee Dee River, said Dusty Owens, director of the Florence County Emergency Management Division. Ordinarily, air teams look for damaged trees for clues to an aircraft's location, but many of the trees in the search area were damaged by an ice storm months ago, Owens said.
The search operation included the Civil Air Patrol, helicopters crews and soldiers on the ground from Fort Bragg, Florence County officials, emergency medical and fire services, state Natural Resources Department officers.
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