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The last two Blackawk crashes were Medical Evacuation helos. The one in August 2020 was Special Ops. The fourth was attributed to mechanical failure.

Idaho’s Black Hawk crash was the fourth on a U.S. flight in just over a year

BY JACOB SCHOLL

FEBRUARY 03, 2021 09:53 AM,

UPDATED 26 MINUTES AGO

U.S. sees four Black Hawk helicopter crashes in 14 months | Tacoma News Tribune (thenewstribune.com)

▪ Idaho, Feb. 2, 2021: Col. Christopher Burt, the Idaho Army National Guard’s state aviation officer, said a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter last made contact at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday evening, and an emergency locator transmitter was activated just after 8 p.m. Air and land search crews were activated and later found the downed aircraft and personnel at around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday morning. The helicopter was on a training flight.

▪ New York, Jan. 20, 2021: Three members of the New York Army National Guard were killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter based in Rochester, New York, crashed during a routine training mission, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. An eyewitness to the crash later told the newspaper his house shook when the helicopter hit the ground, and he could see flames from his home a half-mile away from the crash site.

▪ California, Aug. 27, 2020: Two men were killed and three others were injured when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a training exercise near San Clemente Island, California, according to The Associated Press. The two killed belonged to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment of the U.S. Army based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and both enlisted in the Army as Black Hawk repairmen, according to a statement from the U.S. Army. Army officials categorized the fatal crash as an “aircraft mishap.”