2023 Fort Campbell mid-air collision
HH-60 Black Hawk and HH-60 Black Hawk · Mid-air collision, under investigation
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 9 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Aircraft 1 · HH-60 Black Hawk
- Aircraft type
- HH 60 BLACK HAWK
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Aircraft 2 · HH-60 Black Hawk
- Aircraft type
- HH 60 BLACK HAWK
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On March 29, 2023, two Sikorsky HH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, both operated by the 101st Airborne Division, collided over Fort Campbell in Trigg County, Kentucky, United States. All nine servicemembers were killed. The flight recorders belonging to the helicopters were found, as well as night-vision goggles used by the pilots during the exercise.
Crash
The crash occurred at around 11 pm (EDT), during a routine training mission over Trigg County, Kentucky. Both helicopters were operated by the 101st Airborne Division. The crash occurred just west of the US Army post of Fort Campbell, near the Kentucky-Tennessee border. A local witness, James Hughes, stated that the helicopters had been flying "pretty low" over local homes when the collision occurred. The weather at the time of the crash was clear.
Early in the morning of 30 March 2023, the 101st Airborne confirmed that there had been a number of casualties. A US Army soldier at the scene informed the local WKDZ-FM radio station that there had been several fatalities and that the county coroner had been called. The Kentucky State Police (KSP) were called at around 10:15 (EST), and rushed to an area of woods and fields. Sarah Burgess, a spokesperson for the KSP, stated that multiple agencies were participating in the investigation, and also stated that no residential areas had been affected.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2023 Fort Campbell mid-air collision
- Revision
- 1339315282 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q117336964
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2023 Fort Campbell mid-air collision" (page 73418021, revision 1339315282)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): Two US Army helicopters of the 101st Airborne Division on a training mission: a military flight. The article: "two Sikorsky HH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, both operated by the 101st Airborne Division, collided over Fort Campbell"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.