Three Service-Members Lost
On Thursday, 27 April 2023, two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters assigned to the U.S. Army’s 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment went down in the vicinity of Healy, Alaska. The helicopters, each crewed by two Army Aviators, collided while returning to Fairbanks, Alaska’s Fort Wainwright after a training flight. Two of the four servicemembers expired at the crash-site, a third succumbed during transport to a Fairbanks hospital. The fourth suffered injuries of unknown severity.