Another deadly Army helicopter collision, this time in Alaska

Two U.S. Army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska while returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth.

Two of the soldiers died at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, and a third died on the way to a hospital in Fairbanks. 

The names of those killed were being withheld until relatives could be notified.

Each AH-64 Apache helicopter was carrying two people at the time of the crash, John Pennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Alaska, said earlier Thursday.

The helicopters were from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright, based near Fairbanks.

The crash is the third accident involving military helicopters this year.

In February, two soldiers were injured when an Apache helicopter rolled after taking off from Talkeetna. The aircraft was one of four traveling to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage from Fort Wainwright.

In March, nine soldiers were killed when two Army Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters crashed during a nighttime training exercise about 30 miles northeast of Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Healy is located about 10 miles north of Denali National Park and Preserve, or about 250 miles north of Anchorage.

Healy is a community of about 1,000 people located on the Parks Highway in Alaska’s interior region featuring the nearby park which is home to Denali, the continent’s tallest mountain.