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The crash remains unexplained, investigators later suggested that a venomous spider in the cockpit could have caused the pilot to panic and lose control of the aircraft. [ 172 ] [ 173 ] July 11 : A US CH-47 Chinook came under fire and made an emergency landing in Helmand province, due to the damage the airframe was destroyed by an airstrike.
A Russian private jet carrying six people crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan but the pilot and some of the others on board survived, the Taliban said Sunday. The crash happened Saturday ...
Four survivors of a crash in northern Afghanistan of a charter plane on its way to Moscow were in good health, the Taliban administration said on Monday. It also said that the bodies of two ...
Two Taliban officials in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan said on Sunday that two passengers were killed in a plane crash involving a charter aircraft in the province but they said four ...
Fifteen soldiers also died in the crash. [19] May 9, 2005 – One Myanmar U.N. engineer was killed by a bomb in Kabul. [12] June 7, 2005 – Two Pakistani truck drivers were killed in an ambush in Kandahar province. [20] July 18, 2005 – Two Zimbabwean mine technicians (Fidelis Makwena and Moses Sibanda) were killed by a landmine they were ...
Taliban insurgents attacked the western part of the base following the explosion. The attack was repelled by a US-led NATO forces. At 5:50 a.m. a 22,500 lb VBIED (Vehicle Borne IED) was detonated at Bagram Airfield abandoned medical facility that was walled off separate from the rest of the base.
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 ...
The crash site was 130 kilometers (70 nmi) southwest of Kabul, and near the village of Sado Khelo. [3] [4] Voice of America stated that all five people on board were killed. [5] The U.S. Department of Defense only confirmed two fatalities recovered at the crash site. [6] [7] Two Afghan locals died on the ground as consequence of the crash. [2]