Two 🇺🇸 Mississippi National Guardsmen died after a two-seat U.S. military attack helicopter crashed on Friday during a routine training flight in Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves said.

The crash of the AH-64 Apache helicopter happened at 2 p.m. Central Time (2000 GMT).

"Tragically, both Guardsmen on board did not survive. Safety crews are currently working the scene of the crash with local authorities," Reeves said.

The incident comes on the heels of a Feb. 6 Marine helicopter crash in a remote area outside of San Diego that killed five Marines who had been on a training flight during a fierce winter storm.

Shortly before the crash, at least two wind gusts measuring 21 mph were registered in Booneville, according to National Weather Service data. The temperature was 64 degrees.

On Feb. 6, a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter traveling from Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, crashed amid a winter storm, killing all five U.S. Marines on board, officials said.

And in April 2023, two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters returning to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska, after a training flight collided, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth, the 11th Airborne Division said.

WriterNig:
The US has crashed more aircrafts in training this year than 🇷🇺 Russia that is fighting in a war has. More than 20 crashes in just the last 3 months.

🇺🇸 US military aircrafts are flying coffins. World's number 1 🤡 Army indeed.

Faithful007:


US military aircraft are always flown very often unlike Russia. And no there hasn't been 20 crashes in the past three months.

Besides a Russian plane was shot down yesterday. Why didn't you report that?

I noticed you've been on this stories like this for almost a year. Why don't you find something doing to make your life more meaningful?

WriterNig:




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Faithful007:


US military aircraft are always flown very often unlike Russia. And no there hasn't been 20 crashes in the past three months.

Besides a Russian plane was shot down yesterday. Why didn't you report that?

I noticed you've been on this stories like this for almost a year. Why don't you find something doing to make your life more meaningful?

RealLordZeus:
The OP and US military aircraft crashes

Obrigardo:


He is an anti-American and a russian propagandist. We are yet to confirm if he is paid to do this or not.

Obrigardo:



But this propagandist silently sidestepped the downing of a $300m Russian reconnaissance aircraft by Ukrainian forces and the mass destruction of military facilities INSIDE of russia by Ukrainian drones and seperatist forces INSIDE of russia.


He wants you to think American military is weak and that russian military might is the greatest in the world. And the putin-allinged nl agent will be licking his fingers to push this to the homepage - to satisfy the Putin and anti-America crowds with massive cognitive dissonance.

Obrigardo:


Russian unpaid propagandist at it again.

Anything to make the maga cultists and the killer putin hordes to trash the American military might.

I believe this propagandist posts were quite the opposite when Criminal trump was in power, because he was killer putins used and useful idiot.


But this propagandist silently sidestepped the downing of a $300m Russian reconnaissance aircraft by Ukrainian forces and the mass destruction of military facilities INSIDE of russia by Ukrainian drones and seperatist forces INSIDE of russia.


He wants you to think American military is weak and that russian military might is the greatest in the world. And the putin-allinged nl agent will be licking his fingers to push this to the homepage - to satisfy the Putin and anti-America crowds with massive cognitive dissonance.

hakeemhakeem:


Accidental crash calls for questioning on like war crash

Obrigardo:


It's so clear as day he is an unpaid russian propagandist.

I won't be surprised he is paid and has fooled the nairaland moderators in helping him spread anti-American themes all over this forum.