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May 28: One US Army crew member died when a UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan. The helicopter crashed when it hit a cellphone tower in the Marouf district of Kandahar province. Thirteen crew members were injured. [47] April 26: Five British service members were killed when a British Westland Lynx helicopter crashed in ...
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six is a 2015 non-fiction expose, written by best-selling author and former U.S. Navy JAG Officer Don Brown, about the 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan of a United States Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
The crew tried to make an emergency landing but the helicopter hit a wall and crashed, it added. An Afghan military helicopter crash in western Afghanistan kills at least 1 person, the Taliban say ...
31 August - A Mil Mi-8T helicopter crashed over Kamchatka, Russia. All 22 occupants onboard were killed. [17] 8 September – A Bell UH-1H Iroquois of the Salvadoran Air Force crashed in Pasaquina, El Salvador. The crash killed all 9 occupants, including Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, the director of the National Civil Police. [18]
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Chinook helicopter crash may refer to: the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash in Shetland, killing oil workers; the 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, killing British intelligence officers; the 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan, killing American special forces