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Three U.S. Army pilots were killed and one injured in Alaska on Thursday when two Apache helicopters returning from a training mission collided in flight.

As told by the 11th Airborne Division of the Army, two soldiers were declared dead at the scene and a third died on the way to hospital.

The injured soldier was being treated at Alaska’s Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. The accident will be investigated by a team from the Army Combat Readiness Center in Alabama.

This is the latest in what appears to be an odd string of similar crashes and mishaps. Last month, nine soldiers were killed in a crash of two medical evacuation Black Hawk helicopters during a routine night training mission over Kentucky.

Even stranger, this is the second accident involving military helicopters in Alaska. In February of this year, two soldiers were injured after an Apache rolled after takeoff. Thankfully there were no reported deaths in this accident.