{"id":720232,"date":"2026-06-23T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720232\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:14:14","slug":"4-injured-in-crash-of-u-s-coast-guard-helicopter-in-sitka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720232\/","title":{"rendered":"4 injured in crash of U.S. Coast Guard helicopter in Sitka"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter (Coast Guard) <\/p>\n

Four crew members aboard a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter were injured in a crash in Sitka on Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n

The Coast Guard in a social media post<\/a> late Monday morning said the incident involved a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk.<\/p>\n

The crash occurred near Harbor Mountain, according to Coast Guard Lt. Pam Manns. There were four people aboard the helicopter, which was on a training mission, Manns said. <\/p>\n

Sitka fire and rescue crews arrived at the crash site around 11 a.m., and took all four people to Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center, she said. The crash was reported to watch standers at the Arctic District command center just after 10:05 a.m., Coast Guard officials said. <\/p>\n

Dispatchers in Sitka also received a report of the crash via a 911 call around 10:10 a.m., according to a Facebook post<\/a> by the City and Borough of Sitka. Officials said they temporarily closed Harbor Mountain Road to both vehicle and pedestrian traffic on Monday.<\/p>\n

The cause of the crash is under investigation. <\/p>\n

\u201cAny time something like this happens, it\u2019s very concerning,\u201d Manns said. \u201cWe\u2019re a close Coast Guard family, so it\u2019s great to hear there have been no deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n

The condition of the four crew members wasn\u2019t immediately known, she said. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter (Coast Guard) Four crew members aboard a U.S. Coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-720232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}