One Soldier Killed, One Injured in Helicopter Training Mission at Fort Campbell
The training accident at Fort Campbell, a sprawling army installation that straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border, occurred at about 7 p.m. on Wednesday, the 101st Airborne Division said in a statement.
Emergency services responded and confirmed one soldier had died. The other was evacuated to Blanchfield Army Community Hospital in Clarksville, Tenn., where he was in stable condition, the statement said.
The pilot and the co-pilot were the only two people on the aircraft at the time of the accident, a spokesman said in an email. Their names were not released, and the spokesman did not identify which soldier had died.
The 101st Airborne Division's statement did not say what had caused the deadly accident, which is under investigation; what exactly had happened; or what type of helicopter had been involved.
Fort Campbell is spread over 105,000 acres in parts of Trigg and Christian Counties in Kentucky, as well as Montgomery and Stewart Counties in Tennessee. The 101st Airborne Division, the Army's only air assault division, specializes in rapid deployment, often under cover of darkness. The accident took place at a training area on the Tennessee part of the base, the military said.
The base and its airborne division were at the center of a crash in March 2023, in which nine soldiers were killed when two HH-60 Black Hawk assault helicopters collided during routine training near Fort Campbell. Weeks later, in April, three crew members from the 11th Airborne Division were killed when their Apache helicopters collided in Alaska.
The two crashes prompted the U.S. Army to ground flights until squadrons completed required training. Such stand-downs are common after two or more mishaps within a short period.
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