an Indian Air Force MI-17 helicopter carrying four people, including two officers, crashed into the Chenab river in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday afternoon, police said.The chopper went down into the waters of the Chenab near Assar, about 150 km northeast of Jammu. The body recovered is suspected to be that of the chopper pilot, police said.Local residents, police teams and army troops...
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Victim identified in helicopter crash on Navy ship < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateMilitary officials have identified the soldier killed when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training off the Virginia coast.A statement by Fort Bragg on Sunday said 29-year-old Army Staff Sgt. James R. Stright of Libby, Mont., was killed Thursday night.Stright was assigned to Charlie Company, 3rd...
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"Militants did not fire at the helicopter during the departure or crash," Army says-- Low visibility was to blame for a helicopter crash that killed 10 Americans on Monday in western Afghanistan, the U.S. Army said Wednesday.The crash in Badghis province killed seven U.S. service members and three U.S. civilians. It also injured 14 Afghan service members, 11 U.S. service members and a U.S. civilian,...
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Islamabad: The Taliban have claimed responsibility for shooting down a Pakistani military chopper that crashed in Bajaur tribal area killing at least six people as they announced a "full scale war" against security forces amid a major anti-militancy campaign in the restive northwest.Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, deputy chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, said during a broadcast on his illegal FM...
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cWANA: Security forces claimed to have killed at least five terrorists during early launch of military offensive in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) right after dawn on Sunday, Geo news reported. According to details, militants and security forces clashed in parts of SWA, which resulted in deaths of fivBajaur Agency, Pakistan: Army Copter Crashes in Bajaur, 3 killed , Three people died and 2 were injured...
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Army Chinook helicopter seen in operation in southern Afghanistan. Photo Courtesy: AFP.A series of helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans in insurgent-wracked Afghanistan on Monday, the US military said. It was one of the deadliest days of the war for US troops.In the first crash, a chopper went down in the west of the country after leaving the scene of a firefight with insurgents, killing 10 Americans...
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helicopter of Germany's new Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was almost hit by the Taliban in Afghanistan, where he had gone to visit German troops.On Friday, Guttenberg's helicopter narrowly missed the heavy machine gun and tracer firing from Taliban, as it flew in convoy with two others above Kunduz province.The Minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel's new centre-right government was not...
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people are dead following the crash of a government helicopter in southern South Korea.The state-run Korea Forest Service says that one of its helicopters went down into a lake in Yeongam today during a training mission. The lake is about 240 miles (380km) south of Seoul.Service official Choi Kwan-muk says that rescuers have found the dead bodies of the helicopter's pilot and two deputy pilots.Choi...
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