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Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: davidpt40 on March 20, 2003, 08:29:55 PM

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

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: udet on March 20, 2003, 08:32:23 PM

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

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: davidpt40 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.

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: john9001 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.

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: Dnil on March 20, 2003, 08:42:20 PM

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

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: davidpt40 on March 20, 2003, 08:46:33 PM

Thanks John, I had forgotten that little fact.

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: udet on March 20, 2003, 08:56:34 PM

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

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: Lazerus1 on March 20, 2003, 08:58:50 PM

no

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: davidpt40 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.

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: Rasker on March 20, 2003, 09:00:47 PM

12 Americans 4 British soldiers killed :( R.I.P.

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: Eagler 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

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: Martlet on March 20, 2003, 10:00:11 PM

Yeah, sand is really hard on choppers.

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: NUKE 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

Title: Oh Jesus- Chinook down
Post by: Rasker 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