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5 U.S. Troops Die in Black Hawk Crash in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Five U.S. troops fighting Islamist insurgents in southern Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash in bad weather, the coalition and provincial authorities said Tuesday.
Police in the province of Kandahar said the Black Hawk helicopter came down late Monday evening during a heavy rainstorm in Daman district. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does not release the nationality of casualties, but a Western military official who declined to be named confirmed that the victims were all U.S. forces personnel.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. However, initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time, ISAF said in a statement.
A spokesman said that all on board the helicopter died in the crash.
A Taliban representative in Kandahar said the militants had brought down the aircraft, although the group often makes false claims of responsibility for incidents in which NATO troops die. Helicopter crashes are fairly frequent in Afghanistan, where the100,000-strong international mission relies heavily on air transport as it battles against the insurgency across the south of the country.
There was bad weather in the area, and the helicopter crashed at about 10:00 p.m., Kandahar provincial police chief General Abdul Razeq told AFP. No insurgents were there at the time.
Daman district is one of most stable areas of Kandahar, a province at the heart of the unrest, and local officials said the crash site was not far from Kandahar city.
Last August, seven American soldiers and four Afghans died when another Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Kandahar. Mondays crash came on the same day that two U.S. soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in a suspected insider attack in the eastern province of Wardak by a man in an Afghan army uniform who also killed several Afghan soldiers.
In August 2011, an American Chinook was shot down by the Taliban near Kabul, killing eight Afghans and 30 Americans, including 22 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan earlier that year.
5 U.S. Troops Die in Black Hawk Crash in Afghanistan | Defense News | defensenews.com
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Five U.S. troops fighting Islamist insurgents in southern Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash in bad weather, the coalition and provincial authorities said Tuesday.
Police in the province of Kandahar said the Black Hawk helicopter came down late Monday evening during a heavy rainstorm in Daman district. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does not release the nationality of casualties, but a Western military official who declined to be named confirmed that the victims were all U.S. forces personnel.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. However, initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time, ISAF said in a statement.
A spokesman said that all on board the helicopter died in the crash.
A Taliban representative in Kandahar said the militants had brought down the aircraft, although the group often makes false claims of responsibility for incidents in which NATO troops die. Helicopter crashes are fairly frequent in Afghanistan, where the100,000-strong international mission relies heavily on air transport as it battles against the insurgency across the south of the country.
There was bad weather in the area, and the helicopter crashed at about 10:00 p.m., Kandahar provincial police chief General Abdul Razeq told AFP. No insurgents were there at the time.
Daman district is one of most stable areas of Kandahar, a province at the heart of the unrest, and local officials said the crash site was not far from Kandahar city.
Last August, seven American soldiers and four Afghans died when another Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Kandahar. Mondays crash came on the same day that two U.S. soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in a suspected insider attack in the eastern province of Wardak by a man in an Afghan army uniform who also killed several Afghan soldiers.
In August 2011, an American Chinook was shot down by the Taliban near Kabul, killing eight Afghans and 30 Americans, including 22 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan earlier that year.
5 U.S. Troops Die in Black Hawk Crash in Afghanistan | Defense News | defensenews.com
