U.S. chopper crashes in Afghanistan

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U.S. chopper crashes in

Afghanistan

CH-47 carried about 16

troops, officials say

Tuesday, June 28, 2005; Posted: 2:57 p.m. EDT (18:57 GMT)

 

 

(CNN) -- A U.S. military helicopter with more than a dozen

troops aboard crashed Tuesday in Afghanistan during a military transport mission near the Pakistan border, military officials said.

U.S. military officials told

CNN about 16 U.S. troops were aboard the CH-47 Chinook, a twin-rotor transport.

Neither the cause of the crash nor the condition of those aboard were known

late Tuesday.

The craft was carrying reinforcements into an area " in

support of U.S. forces currently conducting counter-terrorism operations, "

the Coalition Press Information Center of the Combined Forces Command in Kabul said in a written

statement.

Rescuers are trying to reach the crash site, in the Hindu Kush mountains in the eastern

part of the country. Army and Marine forces have been operating in the area,

where peaks rise as high as 7,000-feet and are covered by snow year-round.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/28/afghan.crash/index.html

 

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