The US Army on Friday (local time) announced a temporary halt to all Apache helicopter training missions, two days after a crash in Texas killed both soldiers on board.

Officials say an Army Apache attack helicopter crashed in a central Texas field, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes to be evacuated.

Two people are dead after a military helicopter crashed in a field in Central Texas on Wednesday afternoon, a sheriff’s official said.

The Bell County Sheriff’s Office said the AH-64 U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter, which is based at Fort Hood, crashed into a field.

A military official said the helicopter was undergoing a routine training flight before it went down

Two U.S. Army soldiers were killed when an Apache attack helicopter crashed into a field in Texas on Wednesday during Fort Hood operations, officials said. The AH-64 went down in…