UH-60 Black Hawk Crash Victims Identified

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — The victims have been identified in the military Black Hawk helicopter crash that killed three people.

Chief Warrant Officers Patrick Page, 32, and James Whitehead, 33, and Sergeant Thomas Clarkston Jr., 25, were all aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk when it went down near the south side of Mount Peak, near Mud Mountain Road.

King County sheriff’s Deputy Rodney Chinnick says searchers found the wreckage about 10 p.m. Thursday. The soldiers were on a night training mission when the crash occurred.

Chinnick says county officials contacted Fort Lewis, which confirmed it had a helicopter missing.

The cause of the accident is under investigation, and a team from the Army’s Combat Readiness Center at Fort Rucker, Ala., will assist in the investigation.