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No injuries after training accident brings down Black Hawk in Kansas

Photo courtesy @TrooperBenKHP
Photo courtesy @TrooperBenKHP

MCPHERSON, Kan. — The Kansas National Guard says no one was injured when one of its Black Hawk helicopters made a hard landing at the McPherson airport.

Maj. Joshua Urban says in a news release Wednesday that the helicopter was carrying a crew of four during a standard night-training exercise on the airport’s runway. The accident that occurred shortly before midnight damaged the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to the extent it was unable to fly.

The helicopter was from the Kansas National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 108th Aviation.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.

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