helicopter instructor pilots

The U.S. Army temporarily halted all Apache helicopter training missions Friday after a fatal crash in Texas earlier this week killed two soldiers. No cause of the Wednesday crash has been released because the investigation has just begun. A safety investigation team from the Army Combat Readiness Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama, is trying to determine what happened, the Army said.

The Army is trying to thin out the ranks of its civilian helicopter instructor pilots with a 250-pound weight limit. New military rules set to take effect…