Saturday, September 19, 2026

US Army Black Hawk crashes during Colorado training flight

A US Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a routine training flight in Colorado on Tuesday, with all four people aboard escaping injury.

The aircraft, operated by the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the “Night Stalkers,” came down near Thorodin Mountain in Gilpin County, west of Denver, where images showed it upright among trees with badly damaged rotor blades.

Emergency crews reported no fire or fuel leak, while the Army described the crash as an “aviation mishap” and launched an investigation.



The incident adds to scrutiny of US Army aviation safety following several serious accidents, including a fatal Black Hawk training crash in Washington state last year and the January 2025 collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet near Washington, DC.

Pentagon figures previously showed the rate of the military’s most serious aviation accidents rose 55% between 2020 and 2024, while Army data cited by CNN indicate AH-64 Apache helicopters have recorded five Class A flight mishaps so far in fiscal 2026.

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  1. results of being Covid Vaxxed?
    Very poor flight safety ratings among the DoD..
    They know what the problems are, but continue to sacrifice personnel & equipment so as not to offend higher-ranking Masonic Military Officers .
    A gutless bunch of Luciferians using Satanic Rituals to promote their ‘Mission Accomplishments’
    They are a danger to the U.S., themselves and the world!
    Good people- personnel with good morals, excellent ethics and fair sympathies are run out of the military by the demonic forces that control the same!
    Those that question the actions of genocide, war crimes, along with ‘waste, fraud & abuse’ and questioning ‘command policies’ are booted from the ranks!
    I saw many civilian-trained chopper pilots applying for Rotary Wing Flight Training, who had over 1,000 hours of chopper time, and experienced with aerial spraying, bucket firefighting, and high-altitude rescues disqualified from Army Flight School for NOT HAVING ONE’S UNDERWEAR NOT PROPERLY FOLDED IN PRE-FLIGHT BASIC TRAINING!!
    Therein is the ‘waste fraud & abuse’ by the government itself!
    https://www.facebook.com/100063602625538/posts/there-is-nothing-more-frightful-than-ignorance-in-action-goethe/546975400765876/
    “One obtains power over the nightmare by calling it by it’s real name!” – Goethe
    “To be qualified but not allowed to practice that qualification, that is tragic enough..but to be unqualified and allowed to succeed, that is the real tragedy!’ – Goethe
    “Such imbecility and incompetency is simply criminal! It is galling to have to serve with such people!”- Maj.Gen. George Crook
    “Tis not what you do, but what you get credit for!” – Maj. Gen. George Crook
    “Going along just to get along? We can see how that worked out in the mid 20th Century in Europe..” Former HJ & BDM Victims

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