Passengers 7 Date 10 March 2015 Total fatalities 11 (all) Passenger count 7 | Survivors 0 Operator United States Army Survivor 0 Crew count 4 | |
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Site Off the coast of the Florida Panhandle Aircraft type Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk Similar 2015 Moncks Corner mi, 2015 Los Llanos Air Base crash, 2015 Juba An‑12 crash, 2015 Villa Castelli mid‑air co, 2015 Syrian Air Force An | ||
On March 10, 2015, a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter of the United States Army crashed off the coast of the Florida Panhandle during a training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base, killing all eleven people on board. The helicopter was reported missing during foggy conditions at 8:30 PM. The helicopter was assigned to the 1-244th Assault Helicopter Battalion in Hammond, Louisiana.
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Passengers and crew
There were eleven people on board the helicopter at the time, of whom seven were U.S Marines and four were U.S Army soldiers . The Marines on the helicopter were assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
Search
Debris from the crash was found on March 11 at 2 AM around Okaloosa Island. The ongoing search for the passengers, which is focused on waters east of Navarre, Florida, has been hampered by heavy fog in the area. On the morning of March 11, a spokesman for the Eglin Air Force Base said that human remains had been found in the area of the search. As of March 12, the bodies of two soldiers on board the helicopter had been recovered.
By March 17, 2015, all 11 bodies from the crash on Navarre Beach had been recovered and identified.