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Army pilots killed in Wheeler crash named
By Star-Bulletin staff
POSTED: 03:10 p.m. HST, May 29, 2009
The Army has identified two Army pilots who were killed in a Wednesday helicopter crash at Wheeler Army Airfield.
Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Blane Hepfner, 29, of Hubbard, Ohio, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan Bryce Millward, 28, of Chubbuck, Idaho, were members of the 25th Infantry Division, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, slated to deploy to Iraq in October.
Hepfner joined the Army as an infantryman in June 1998 and served on peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Egypt. He was commissioned as a chief warrant officer in 2002 and served a tour in Iraq as a helicopter pilot.
Millward joined the Army in June 2006 and was assigned to Hawaii in July 2008 after completing flight training at Fort Rucker, Ala.
Both men were unmarried and had no survivors in Hawaii, according to an Army spokesman.
An Army spokesman said the two-man aircraft was on a general maintenance test flight when it made a “hard landing” on the runway.
The cause of the crash of the OH-48D Kiowa Warrior helicopter is under investigation by officials from the U.S. Army Safety Center in Fort Rucker, Ala. The crash investigators arrived in Honolulu today.
The Army has identified two Army pilots who were killed in a Wednesday helicopter crash at Wheeler Army Airfield.
Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Blane Hepfner, 29, of Hubbard, Ohio, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan Bryce Millward, 28, of Chubbuck, Idaho, were members of the 25th Infantry Division, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, slated to deploy to Iraq in October.
Hepfner joined the Army as an infantryman in June 1998 and served on peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Egypt. He was commissioned as a chief warrant officer in 2002 and served a tour in Iraq as a helicopter pilot.
Millward joined the Army in June 2006 and was assigned to Hawaii in July 2008 after completing flight training at Fort Rucker, Ala.
Both men were unmarried and had no survivors in Hawaii, according to an Army spokesman.
An Army spokesman said the two-man aircraft was on a general maintenance test flight when it made a “hard landing” on the runway.
The cause of the crash of the OH-48D Kiowa Warrior helicopter is under investigation by officials from the U.S. Army Safety Center in Fort Rucker, Ala. The crash investigators arrived in Honolulu today.
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