The US Army’s Apache helicopters are crashing at a historically high rate amid a widespread problem with the model’s transmission, according to a CNN analysis of military accident data.

The helicopter type has experienced five major crashes since October, and a deadly mishap earlier this month in Texas killed two soldiers, sparked a wildfire and led the Army to temporarily bar Apache pilots from conducting routine training flights. With that crash, fiscal year 2026 is on pace to be the second worst for Apache flight accidents since a new model of the AH-64 was rolled out in 2011.

The Army announced that the pause in training flights, which exempted units deployed to the Middle East, ended Wednesday.

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    A bigger problem with the Abraham myth is the close lineage to Noah/Shem. The only geological possibility of a massive flood story is instead of 40 days/nights or rain, was a 100 year flood of Persian Gulf Oasis (likely site of Atlantis) in 6100bc as a result of ice age melting. That’s 4000 years prior to Abraham’s dating.