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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graeme Massie

US Army grounds non-critical mission aviators following two fatal crashes

AP

The US Army has grounded all of its non-critical mission aviators in the wake of two helicopter crashes that killed two servicemen.

The move was announced by the service’s chief of staff and came the day after the mid-air collision of two AH-64 Apache helicopters in Alaska that killed three soldiers and wounded another.

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