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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.
Video of the crash scene shows that the aircraft serial number was 11–9358, [18] msn 9358. The aircraft first flew in 2009 and was operated by the 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron in the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node role. [19] The aircraft involved in the crash was one of only four in the United States Air Force. [3]
3 July – A Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in Khyber Pass, Pakistan, killing all 41 people on board. 8 August – A Eurocopter AS350 collides with a Piper PA-32R over the Hudson River between Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City, United States. The six occupants of the helicopter and the three occupants of the Piper aircraft all ...
The military branch said that O’Hara, of Lilburn, Georgia, served as a UH-60 helicopter repairer (15T) in the Army from July 2014. He was deployed to Afghanistan from March 2017 to August 2017.
January 16, 2012 – Three American private contractors working for the Defense Department were killed when their helicopter crashed in Helmand province. They were working for AAR Airlift company. [92] [93] February 11, 2012 – Mi-8MTV-1 helicopter crashed in Zabul province, 3 crew members – citizens of Tajikistan were killed. [94]
Staff Sgt. Ryan O’Hara was the crew chief on board the helicopter during Wednesday's crash. He began serving in the Army in 2014 and was deployed to Afghanistan from March 2017 to August 2017 ...
S ixty-seven people are presumed dead after the Jan. 29 collision between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter near Ronald ... to Afghanistan from March to August 2017, served as a UH-60 ...