An Army helicopter carrying seven soldiers crashed and burned in the fog yesterday after hitting a web of support wires on a TV transmission tower whose warning lights had been knocked out in a storm last week, officials said.
Everyone aboard was killed.
The helicopter was headed to check out equipment being readied for use in Iraq, said Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington, spokesman for the Fort Hood-based 4th Infantry Division. The names of the victims, all from Fort Hood, were not immediately released by the military.
A military official at the home of Brig. Gen. Charles B. Allen told the Associated Press that Allen, a 27-year Army veteran and an assistant division commander with the 4th Infantry Division, was among those killed.
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