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Army temporarily grounds all Apache helicopter flights after fatal crash
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Key Points:
- The Army has temporarily grounded all Apache helicopter flights following a fatal crash near Fort Hood, Texas, during a maintenance test flight on Wednesday.
- Two soldiers, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Deontre T. Huey and Warrant Officer Seth L. Olmstead, died in the crash involving a two-seater Apache attack helicopter.
- The stand-down of AH-64 Apache training flight operations will continue until the root cause of the accident is determined, with no additional information currently available.
- A safety investigation is being led by the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center to determine the cause of the crash.
- Recent data indicates that Apache helicopters have experienced a higher number of mishaps compared to other helicopters in the Army inventory.
