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Coast Guard helicopter crashes during Lake Huron training, April 21, 2010

Also Whirly Goes Down · Coast Guard HH-65C Lake Huron crash

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TypeEvent
Date2010-04-21
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2010-04-21
Kind
Accident
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

On April 21, 2010, a Coast Guard Air Station Detroit HH-65C helicopter crashed during nighttime hoist training in southern Lake Huron. The three aviators exited safely and were recovered by a Coast Guard utility boat; no injuries were reported.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper incident report with Coast Guard photographs, not an official accident investigation or complete operational record.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 2010, "Whirly Goes Down."
    Reports the April 21 nighttime training crash, safe exit and recovery of three aviators by a Port Huron Station 41-foot utility boat, precautionary hospital checks, and later release without reported injuries. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the Coast Guard incident report and photographs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard helicopter crashes during Lake Huron training, April 21, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-coast-guard-helicopter-crash-april-21-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2010, "Whirly Goes Down." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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