Late last night, Gray Army Airfield at Joint Base Lewis-McChord lost contact with an AH-64E Apache gunship from the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade.
Search teams traced it to Summit Lake, southwest of the base - finding wreckage, fire, and confirmation no one survived.
Both the pilot and co-pilot, part of the 7th Infantry Division’s I Corps, were killed.
The crash leaves the Army without 2 of its front-line aviators, and investigators now comb through the debris to learn why one of the Army’s most advanced attack helicopters went down in Washington woods.
