One other navy plane has crashed within the desert round El Centro, California — the third within the area in seven days. It comes lower than 48 hours after an MV-22B Osprey crash killed 5 Marines in the identical space.
On Thursday, a Navy MH-60S Seahawk was conducting a routine coaching flight from Naval Air Facility El Centro when it crashed at round 6 p.m. native time, the service mentioned in a press launch. A social media submit from the power mentioned the crash was positioned about 35 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
In an replace launched within the early hours of Friday, the Navy mentioned that each one 4 of the aircrew on board the helicopter survived, although one sailor suffered “non-life threatening accidents” and needed to be taken to a close-by hospital.
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The Seahawk was assigned to Helicopter Sea Fight Squadron (HSC) 3, based mostly at Naval Air Station North Island, California.
Though this incident seems to have ended with out critical harm, the crash caps off a lethal week in southern California for the ocean service.
Final Friday, Navy pilot Lt. Richard Bullock was killed when his F/A-18 Tremendous Hornet crashed close to Trona, California, about 250 miles from Naval Air Station Lemoore and 400 miles north of El Centro.
That very same day, 29-year-old Electronics Technician 2nd Class John Deltoro was killed in a automotive crash whereas getting back from coaching at Camp Billy Machen in Niland — a city simply north of El Centro. Deltoro and 4 different sailors had been driving round 10 p.m. June 3 when their automotive went off the highway and hit a big boulder. The 4 different sailors within the automotive had been all hospitalized. All 5 had been a part of a West Coast-based Naval Particular Warfare unit, in accordance with the Navy.
Then, on Wednesday, an MV-22B Osprey crashed in Glamis, California — a small city between El Centro and Yuma — killing all 5 Marines aboard. In keeping with the Corps, the plane was stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
Though the sequence of incidents paints a grim image, it is very important observe that, given the knowledge obtainable, nothing appears to attach the entire mishaps.
The three plane crashes concerned three totally different platforms, and the plane themselves had been based mostly out of three totally different bases. In the meantime, the California Freeway Patrol has mentioned that it’s trying into whether or not seat belts had been used within the lethal automotive crash, noting in a press launch that Deltoro was the center rear passenger.
The Marine Corps mentioned that, as of Friday, it was nonetheless throughout the 24-hour interval to inform the subsequent of kin of the Marines who perished in Wednesday’s crash, forward of publicly figuring out the victims. As well as, out of privateness issues, the Navy usually doesn’t launch the names of mishap victims who weren’t killed.
— Konstantin Toropin may be reached at konstantin.toropin@navy.com. Comply with him on Twitter @ktoropin.
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