US: Three military pilots were killed, one injured after a plane crash in Alaska World news

Three US Army pilots were killed and one was injured in Alaska on Thursday when two Apache helicopters returning from a training mission collided in flight, the Army’s 11th Airborne Division said.

Two soldiers were pronounced dead at the scene and a third died on the way to the hospital, the army said in a statement. The injured soldier is being treated at Alaska’s Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.

The crash will be investigated by a team from the Army Combat Investigation Center in Alabama, the department said.

Last month, nine soldiers were killed in the crash of two Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters during a routine night training exercise over Kentucky.