US authorities announced that a Black Hawk military helicopter crashed on Wednesday near a highway in southern Alabama, killing two soldiers on board. flight when it crashed. Wednesday afternoon near the city of Huntsville, Alabama, which borders Tennessee.
He added that there were two people on board the helicopter, two members of the National Guard, who died in the crash. The statement confirmed that the accident did not result in other injuries on the ground. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of two Tennessee National Guard soldiers, and we pray with their families during this heartbreaking tragedy,” Brigadier General Warner Ross, Commander of the Tennessee State Armed Forces, said in a statement.
In a separate statement, National Guard spokesman Robert Carver said it was “too early to discuss possible causes of the crash”, noting that authorities had launched an investigation into the crash.