Four Warrant Officers and five enlisted Soldiers assigned to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, died in an aviation mishap 29 March 2023 in Cadiz, Kentucky, at approximately 2140 local. While conducting night training in a military operations area/special use airspace, two HH-60 aircraft collided midair. The collision resulted in nine fatalities and the total loss of both aircraft. A Centralized Accident Investigation team from U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center is leading the investigation.
Since FY18, the Army has had an average of seven Class A aviation flight mishaps and lost an average of five Soldiers per year to on-duty aviation mishaps. This was the fourth Class A aviation mishap of FY23 and one above the number of similar mishaps during the same time last year.