A US Navy helicopter crashed close to the California-Arizona line only one day after a MV-22 Osprey crash
A US Navy helicopter crashed on Thursday evening, the Naval Air Facility El Centro has affirmed. The accident site is around 35 miles north of Yuma, Arizona, and comes only one day after five Marines were killed in a MV-22 Osprey crash around similar region, in neighboring Imperial County, California.
"We have gotten reports that a tactical airplane has crashed around 35 miles north of Yuma, AZ," Naval Air Facility El Centro composed on its Facebook page. "Government Fire and other neighborhood people on call including Reach are gone to the scene."
Firemen were called to Highway 78 close to Palo Verde at 5:43pm neighborhood time, following a report of a tactical airplane down, an Imperial County Fire Department delegate affirmed to the Los Angeles Times.
The Navy gave a subsequent assertion thirty minutes after the fact, saying that the airplane has been recognized as one of their helicopters and that it crashed on a preparation range.
"As per our underlying reports, each of the four of the air team on board endure the accident. One of the aircrew has experienced a non-perilous injury and has been moved to a nearby medical clinic," said Commander Zach Harrell, from the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.
This is the second accident in Imperial County in two days. On Wednesday evening, a MV-22 Osprey having a place with the third Marine Aircraft Wing went down close to the local area of Glamis, around 30 miles from the US-Mexico line. Every one of the five individuals on board passed on. Maritime Air Facility El Centro denied starting reports that the slant rotor transport had been conveying "atomic materials."
The US Navy and the Marines have been directing activities at the Imperial County range, in the desert on the line among California and Arizona, for the beyond half a month.
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