AFGHANISTAN - Jan. 20 - US Helicopter Crashes.A CH-53E Super Stallion The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion (Sikorsky S-80E), is the largest and heaviest helicopter in the United States military. Sailors commonly refer to the Super Stallion as the "Hurricane Maker" because of the downward thrust the helicopter generates. US military helicopter on a re-supply mission crashes in high mountain terrain 65 km to the south of Bagram Air Base Bagram Air Base (ICAO: OAIX) is a military controlled airport and housing complex that is located next to the ancient city of Bagram, southeast of Charikar in Parvan province of Afghanistan. , killing two of the seven Marines on board and injuring the rest. US Defence Secretary Rumsfeld says there is no evidence that the helicopter has come under enemy fire, adding: "It appears to be, at the moment, a mechanical problem with the helicopter". The injured Marines were taken to a medical facility "within the Afghanistan theatre of operations Noun 1. theatre of operations - a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years" field of operations, theater of operations, theatre, theater, field ". (The worst single casualty toll for US forces came on Jan. 9, when all seven Marines aboard a re-fueling tanker were killed in a fiery crash in south-western Pakistan. That crash still is being investigated but there were no reports of hostile fire In insurance law, a combustion that cannot be controlled, that escapes from where it was initially set and confined, or one that was not intended to exist. A hostile fire differs from a friendly fire, which burns in a place where it was intended to burn, such as one confined . The only other fatal crash of a US military aircraft during the war occurred on Oct. 19, when an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Pakistan, killing two Army Rangers). |
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