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Army Identifies 4 Night Stalkers Killed in Washington Black Hawk Training Crash

Investigators from the Army Combat Readiness Center are probing the Sept. 17 MH-60M accident near Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

Overview

  • U.S. Army Special Operations Command named Chief Warrant Officer 3 Andrew Cully, 35; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Andrew Kraus, 39; Sgt. Donavon Scott, 25; and Sgt. Jadalyn Good, 23, as the crew members who died.
  • The MH-60M from the 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment went down about 9 p.m. near Summit Lake in Capitol State Forest during a routine night training flight.
  • Cully and Kraus served as the helicopter’s pilots, while Scott and Good were crew chiefs with more than 700 flight hours each.
  • The crash sparked a roughly 1-acre wildfire that local and state responders helped contain as operations shifted from rescue to recovery.
  • Col. Stephen Smith honored the fallen and the command thanked partner agencies, as the cause remains undetermined during the ongoing inquiry.