U.S. Army investigators have recovered flight recording devices from two helicopters that collided last week in Interior Alaska, killing three soldiers and injuring another.
The AH-64 Apache helicopters collided April 27 about 50 miles east of Healy while returning from training at an aerial gunnery range in the Donnelly Training Area southeast of Fairbanks.
Two soldiers were aboard each helicopter — all from the 11th Airborne Division’s 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks. Two died at the scene and another died on the way to a Fairbanks hospital. The injured soldier, whose name has not been made public, was released from the hospital Sunday evening and is recovering at home, according to John Pennell, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Alaska.
A team of investigators from the Army Combat Readiness Center in Fort Novosel, Alabama, arrived in Alaska on Sunday and flew to the crash site Monday, Pennell said. There is no timeline for when the investigation will be completed.Investigators on Monday recovered the black boxes, which contain a 30-minute recording loop of data from the flight, including altitude, aircraft attitude, speed and heading, the Army said in a statement Wednesday.
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