Author Topic: Oh Jesus- Chinook down (Read 494 times)

davidpt40 · « **on:** March 20, 2003, 08:29:55 PM »

CH47 down. 20+ on board. Their sacrifice will be remembered by me.

udet · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2003, 08:32:23 PM »

u have got to be f*cking kidding me. that would make 3 so far ....

davidpt40 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2003, 08:37:00 PM »

No survivors. Crashed in friendly territory during some kind of storm. Visibility was less than 1 mile.

john9001 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2003, 08:39:10 PM »

if you didn't notice , there is a war going on , people die in wars , in fact people die even when there is no war going on.

Dnil · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2003, 08:42:20 PM »

ch-46 sea knight, smaller then the chinook. 16 onboard, all feared dead, including british troops.

davidpt40 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2003, 08:46:33 PM »

Thanks John, I had forgotten that little fact.

udet · « **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2003, 08:56:34 PM »

after the CH-53 yesterday and the Apache...was any of them shot down?

Lazerus1 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 20, 2003, 08:58:50 PM »

davidpt40 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 20, 2003, 08:59:06 PM »

I heard that the apache simply made a hard landing and was able to take back off. Guess the pilot panicked. He was taking small arms fire.

Rasker · « **Reply #9 on:** March 20, 2003, 09:00:47 PM »

12 Americans 4 British soldiers killed

R.I.P.

Eagler · « **Reply #10 on:** March 20, 2003, 09:18:32 PM »

thought i saw somewhere that sand and choppers don't mix..

hard to land from all the sand one blows up on decent..

~~the fallen heroes~~

Martlet · « **Reply #11 on:** March 20, 2003, 10:00:11 PM »

Yeah, sand is really hard on choppers.

NUKE · « **Reply #12 on:** March 20, 2003, 11:03:10 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Rasker
12 Americans 4 British soldiers killed R.I.P.

correction: 12 British and 4 US.

God Bless these heros

Rasker · « **Reply #13 on:** March 20, 2003, 11:23:09 PM »

should name a province of the country they died to free after each one of these guys