[Regnum] Two US National Guard soldiers were killed in the crash of an AH-64 Apache helicopter in the US state of Mississippi. State Governor Tate Reeves announced this on February 23on the social network X (formerly Twitter).It is clarified that the plane crash occurred on February 23 around 14:00 local time (23:00 Moscow time) in Prentiss County during a training flight. Reeves indicated that there were two military personnel on board the aircraft, both pilots did not survive.
At the same time, the National Guard in Mississippi noted on its page on the social network that the data on victims has not been confirmed. Specialists are working at the scene.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the head of the largest bank in Africa, Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, died with his family in a helicopter crash near the city of Nipton in the USA on February 11.
The Eurocopter EC130 helicopter crashed on the evening of February 9 near Holloran Springs Road in California. Everyone on board was killed: the pilot-in-command, the co-pilot and four passengers, including Wigwe, his wife and son.
A plane crash was also reported in California on the night of February 10, which killed six people. Four days earlier, on February 6, former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera was killed in a plane crash. The helicopter he was flying in fell into the lake.