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Afghan Ministry of Defense confirmed the helicopter "crash landed", and acknowledged the death of three crew members. [14] March 18: A Mi-17 helicopter of the Afghan Army was shot down by a local anti-taliban militia led by ethnic warlord Abdul Ghani Alipur [15] in the Behsud district of Maidan Wardak.
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.
More than 15 percent of the approximately 2,350 Lockheed C-130 Hercules production hulls have been lost, including 70 by the US Air Force and the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Not all US C-130 losses have been crashes, 29 of those listed below were destroyed on the ground by enemy action or other non-flying accidents. [1] [2]
A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan journalist affiliated with the militant group said. Taliban say mystery crash in Afghanistan was U ...
American forces called in airstrikes on civilian homes in Afghanistan after an operation to capture Taliban leaders spiraled out of control. U.S. military expresses regret for bombing civilians in ...
Despite ISAF stating that no Taliban activity had been reported in the affected area at the time of the crash, several attempts to reach the crash site were met with gunfire. [ 5 ] [ 13 ] The Azerbaijani ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan considered that reports indicating technical problems with the aircraft were not true, and that in his ...
The Taliban also published a video of snow-capped mountains in the area. In Moscow, Russian civil aviation authorities said a Dassault Falcon 10 went missing with four crew members and two passengers.
The crash, said to have been caused by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Taliban forces in the Tangi Valley of Wardak Province, when the helicopter was at approximately 100–150 feet off the ground just before landing, was the largest loss-of-life by U.S. in the Afghan War. [6]