Black Hawk crash at Texas

COLLEGE STATION, Texas –A Black Hawk helicopter carrying five people crashed Monday afternoon at the campus of Texas A&M University, killing one person and injuring the others.

The Army UH-60 helicopter crashed Monday afternoon during training exercises near the Corps of Cadets field on the school's College Station campus, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. No one on the ground and no students were hurt.

A crew of four from the Army National Guard and an Army lieutenant assigned to the school's ROTC unit were the only ones aboard the Black Hawk, Texas A&M spokesman Lane Stephenson said.

All five were taken to hospitals, where the death occurred.Meanwhile,two of the injured were in critical condition at College Station Medical Center.

Another crash victim was at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. That person's condition wasn't immediately known.

Officials did not release the names of the dead and injured.

Witnesses told the Bryan-College Station Eagle they saw five Black Hawk helicopters taking off and landing throughout the day.

"All of a sudden he dropped straight back down into the ground," Said one of the people who see the tragedy.

The helicopter, along with 190 cadets in the university's Corps of Cadets, the school's own officer training unit, were participating in the ROTC Winter Field Training Exercises.

Students are on winter break, with classes set to resume Jan. 20.