(NEXSTAR) — A National Guard helicopter crashed near Texas’ border with Mexico on Friday afternoon, leaving at least two people dead, multiple law enforcement sources confirmed to Nexstar.
Three people were killed and one other person was injured in a National Guard helicopter crash in Texas on Friday, according to a statement from the Defense Department’s joint task force.
Two of the dead were female navy service members. The Eurocopter Panther helicopter took off from a long-distance ocean patrol ship about 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) southwest of the ...