[inf.req] Downed Chinook
Can anyone give me some info on this? How many KIA?
There have been 3 crashes of Chinooks in Iraq:
May 21, 2005 - A Chinook from 4-123rd Avn crashes in Iraq due to failure of both engines. Five crewmen injured.
September 8, 2004 - Chinook crashes 20 miles south of Fallujah; all four crew members survive
November 2, 2003 - near Fallujah, Chinook shot down; 16 soldiers killed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rashes_in_Iraq
Doesn't that wreckage look a little bit small to be a Chinook, anyone?
Are you sure it's not a CH - 46 Seaknight?
It looks quite small indeed .Originally Posted by Digital Marine
BTW does anyone have the list of the helos that had been downed since the OIF ?
i just posted it
Oooops , I missed iti just posted it
Infortunatly thatīs quite a long list
RIP for those who were KIA .
I think last weeks army times had an article about materiel casualties in OIF, near 1,000 total vehicle and aircraft losses, not that many helos down to enemy action though
must be this type of heli
yeah it's def a Marine CH-46E
There have been 3 Sea Knight crashes, 2 of which at sea
May 19, 2003 - CH-46 Sea Knight crashes, killing four Marines; another soldier drowns trying to rescue the crew.
April 8, 2003 - CH-46 Sea Knight crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while resupplying; all on board are rescued
March 20, 2003 - CH-46 Sea Knight crashes, killing eight British soldiers and four Marines.
So it's probably the last one which was also the 1st... RIP
anyone got some details on the crash of those two Marine CH-53E's during that joint exercise in Djibouti (sp?) some days ago?
Might seem a daft question but is this definitely Iraq? I seem to remember reports that the wreckage from the CH-46 crash involving the Brits was spread over a wide area but that may have turned out to be false. No SA-80s in the box either..
Anyone know how long that was out there for?? There's a lot of rusted weapons in that box.
They're burned, not rusted.
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