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callsign Metman
6th Apr 2005, 12:32
from the BBC ...breaking news
'US chopper crashes in Afghanistan
A United States military helicopter has crashed in south-eastern Afghanistan, the US military says.
Reports of casualties after the CH-47 Chinook went down in Ghazni Province could not be confirmed, spokeswoman Lt Cindy Moore told the AFP news agency.
Ghazni governor Assadullah Khalid told Reuters at least two US servicemen had died in the crash in bad weather.
US forces have suffered a number of fatal air accidents in Afghanistan since ousting the Taleban in 2001. '
RIP
CM
'No survivors' in US Afghan crash
A United States military helicopter has crashed in south-eastern Afghanistan killing at least nine people, four of them crew, the US military says. The CH-47 Chinook went down in bad weather in the province of Ghazni, spokeswoman Lt Cindy Moore told the Associated Press. She said it appeared there were no survivors.
The helicopter was one of the two Chinooks flying to the main American base at Bagram, north of Kabul, from a routine mission in southern Afghanistan when controllers lost radio contact with the aircraft, Lt Moore said. "Indications are it was bad weather and that there were no survivors," she said. The identity of the passengers is still unclear. The second helicopter arrived safely at Bagram airfield.
Ghazni governor Assadullah Khalid told Reuters that local officials had recovered two bodies from the crash site. "We recovered two American soldiers' bodies and now American forces are in control of the situation. The chopper was burning when we were there," he said....
Abdul Rahman Sarjang, the chief of police in Ghazni, told the Associated Press that the crash occurred in the flat desert near a brick factory about five kilometers (three miles) outside the city. The helicopter caught fire, he said.
"We collected nine bodies, though the Americans told us there were 13 people in total on board," Sarjang told AP by mobile telephone. "They were all wearing American uniforms and they were all dead."
R.I.P. my American colleagues.
My thoughts are with the families of these Allied Servicemen and women at this sad time...
FJJP
Brian Dixon
6th Apr 2005, 20:09
Sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of those lost.
RIP all.
God Bless
Number on board now up to 18.
....Sixteen people on board were killed, US military officials said. A further two are missing but are not believed to have survived.