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May 31: One US CH-53 Sea Stallion was destroyed in a hard landing, the crew survived. [ 45 ][ 46 ] 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.
2. On 27 January 2020, a United States Air Force Bombardier Global Express E-11A aircraft crashed in Afghanistan's Dih Yak District, Ghazni Province. Two people on board were killed, who comprised the entire crew, according to U.S. military sources. With the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, this was the last ...
There were 2,459 United States military deaths in the War in Afghanistan, which lasted from October 2001 to August 2021. 1,922 of these deaths were the result of hostile action. 20,769 American servicemembers were also wounded in action during the war. [1] In addition, 18 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives also died in Afghanistan. [2]
The Tarnak Farm incident is the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan. A United States F-16 fighter jet piloted by Air ...
About 2,500 US service members were killed and more than 20,000 were wounded during the US-led war in Afghanistan.
Croatia: 1. Lithuania: 1. Montenegro: 1. TOTAL: 3,612. Throughout the War in Afghanistan, there had been 3,606 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of the coalition operations (Operation Enduring Freedom and ISAF) since the invasion in 2001. [1] In this total, the American figure is for deaths "In and Around Afghanistan " which, as defined ...
A Boeing CH-47D Chinook helicopter in Bagram, Afghanistan, similar to the one that was shot down. Shootdown. Date. 6 August 2011. (2011-08-06) Summary. Shot down by rocket-propelled grenade. Site. Tangi Valley, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan.
0. On 2 September 2006, a Royal Air Force Hawker Siddeley Nimrod suffered an in-flight fire and subsequently crashed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing all fourteen crew members on board. The crash, which occurred during a reconnaissance flight, was the biggest single loss of life suffered by the British military since the Falklands War.