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here. ah, a couple of points, one. the fact that a medevac helicopter was was part of this . what does that tell us and just the danger as well of nighttime operations, even even during exercises. yeah, a couple of things. jim and orange summed it up very well on a black hawk . there are always two pilots and pilot and a copilot. and there are always two crew chiefs both on the left and right doors , so one helicopter had their crew. the other one had an additional passenger more than likely a medic in the back. ahh helicopters have the medevac helicopters. the ones with the big red cross on the side are there to evacuate wounded soldiers, so they were training in the evacuation. and when you had that one other soldier in the back more than likely a medic but in the back of those hh helicopters, there are cassettes that you can load up litters and, uh, that you put wounded soldiers onto and carry
have a safety team coming in from fort rucker right now to help determine exactly what happened. they said those two h 60 or black hawk medevac helicopters crashed and they were flying at the time of the crash. of course, nine of those service members on board all died. we re told that once they arrived on scene, they were dead, they were not transported. there were five on one helicopter for on the other helicopter again, they said this was a routine training mission. eight progression flight. they said that this was something that was basically a multi ship formation under night vision goggles, according to the 101st again, it is right now being investigated to determine what did cause this flight. this crash. i asked if there was any sort of signal for help any sort of alert that something might have been wrong before the crash happened. they said that that was not something that they had any indication had happened at this point, the governor of kentucky also here today trying to o