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On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. The ...
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.
Chinook helicopter crash may refer to: the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash in Shetland, killing oil workers the 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash , killing British intelligence officers
Twenty-nine people were killed when the helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994. Son of Chinook crash victim lodges complaint over MoD 100-year file lockdown Skip to main content
At 2.5 mi (4.0 km) from the runway the helicopter had a catastrophic forward transmission failure which caused the tandem rotor blades to collide. The helicopter crashed into the sea and sank. Forty-three passengers and two crew members were killed in the crash; one passenger and one crew member survived with injuries.
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1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash; I. 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown; M. 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash
The first crash occurred March 7 when five soldiers out of Fort Campbell were killed when an MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashed on a training mission, The New York Times reported. Shortly after the ...