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rotornut

10th December 2003 04:36

Chopper crash in Iraq

Helicopter crash

Elsewhere in the north, a US helicopter has come down 5km south of Falluja, Aljazeera’s correspondent reports.

The Tomahawk assault helicopter crashed in the suburb of Saddat al-Falluja on Tuesday afternoon.

Witnesses confirmed seeing the incident while others reported seeing flames coming from the aircraft.

The US military in Baghdad said the crash was a "controlled, hard landing" and there were no injuries or deaths from the incident.

Ian Corrigible

10th December 2003 06:19

Reportedly an RPG hit on an OH-58D Kiowa. Several reports on out there, including Kiowa down.

I/C

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