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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.
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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.
All told, the U.S. Air Force flew 5.25 million sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, northern and southern Laos, and Cambodia, losing 2,251 aircraft: 1,737 to hostile action, and 514 in accidents. 2,197 of the losses were fixed-wing, and the remainder rotary-wing. The USAF sustained approximately 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties during the ...
A US Army Boeing-Vertol CH-47D Chinook helicopter, 86-01643, of 2nd Platoon, Company A, 2nd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, 47th Hospital, 214th Field Artillery Brigade, 3rd Corps, Forces Command (FORSCOM), located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, crashes outside Chico, Texas, killing ten soldiers and injuring eight, most with burns. The helicopter ...
US Army Boeing CH-47D Chinook, 90-00220, [128] [129] of the 6–158th AVN, [130] assigned for fire duty with the U.S. Forest Service, crashes at approximately 1750 hrs. on the Davis Ranch, 35 miles NE of McCall, Idaho, killing one of five on board. During a landing attempt in a clearing, the slope was misjudged, being ≈11 degrees rather than ...
US Army Reserve/National Guard Boeing CH-47 Chinook 84-24175, c/n M3079, callsign Extortion 17, was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations ...