A helicopter crashed during a routine training flight in southeast Alaska on Monday, injuring four crew members on board, according to officials.
The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crashed outside , in a sparsely populated area near Harbor Mountain, the Coast Guard announced in a press release.
Watch standers at the Arctic District command center received the report of the crash shortly after 10 a.m.
Rescue crews from Sitka Fire and Rescue responded to the scene at around 11 a.m. and transported all four injured crew members to Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center for treatment.
No deaths were reported in connection with the crash.
“We are incredibly relieved our crew members survived with only minor injuries,” Rear Adm. Bob Little, commander of the Coast Guards Arctic District, said in a statement.
It is unclear what caused the crash. The incident remains under investigation.
The Coast Guard crash comes after multiple other aircraft collisions this month.
A business jet crashed on a highway in Laredo, Texas, on Tuesday night, killing one person.
A B-52 crashed on June 15 during a test flight at in California, killing all eight people aboard.
The day before, 12 people were killed when a plane on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed.
