Four injured after Coast Guard helicopter crashes in Alaska

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Four people were injured on Monday after a Coast Guard helicopter crashed during a training flight near Harbor Mountain in Sitka, Alaska.

The MH-60 Jayhawk had taken off from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka when it crashed. The Coast Guard said the four injured were crew members of the Jayhawk and were transported to Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center. Rescuers arrived at around 11 a.m. local time, roughly an hour after the Arctic District command center received the first reports of the crash.

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