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US Black Hawk crashes in Germany police report two dead

by mudricky | February 3, 2010 at 01:22 pm

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A US military Black Hawk helicopter has crashed in Germany killing at least two.

The aircraft went down in woods near the A67 highway between Viernheim and Lorsch in the West, south of Frankfurt.

At this time it is not clear what had caused the crash and a U.S. Army Europe spokesman could not say where the helicopter was flying to or from.

Some media websites are linking it to heavy snowfall in the last day or two may have been a factor.

A U.S. military helicopter crashed in western Germany Wednesday, killing two people, German police said. The military did not immediately confirm the casualties.

Police said a third person was missing.

The aircraft went down about 6:20 p.m. (1720GMT) Wednesday in woods near the A67 highway between Viernheim and Lorsch, south of Frankfurt, Hesse state police said.

The helicopter was a UH-60 Black Hawk, said Bruce Anderson, a spokesman for U.S. Army Europe.

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at 15:22 on February 3rd, 2010

More bad news, showing flying is still a risk.

Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 15:55 on February 3rd, 2010

Just called my cousin who lives at that Autobahn junction and she hadn.t even heard

Uwe Paschen

at 16:57 on February 3rd, 2010

That is a very densely populated area. Not a good place for the military to be at any time. The US Has crushed a few of those helicopters in the past, it maybe they should retire them and start buying European or Asian Helicopter that have a better record.

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at 17:52 on February 3rd, 2010

I love the style of abercrombie

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at 17:57 on February 3rd, 2010

I was under the idea Black Hawks were very reliable....bad news:(

skin anti wrinkle cream (not verified)

at 18:02 on February 3rd, 2010

I thought Black Hawks were very reliable bad news

skin anti wrinkle cream

at 18:10 on February 3rd, 2010

I thought black hawks were very reliable... too bad

who cares (not verified)

at 11:55 on February 5th, 2010

they are very reliable, and there are lots of factors to take in consideration besidesreliability, but something like this happens and everyone feels as if they are subject matter experts, have you noticed that?....