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USAF MC-12 recce bird goes down in AFG
A U.S. military MC-12 plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan early Friday morning, killing three Americans.The plane was not struck by enemy fire, a defense official told ABC News, though a cause of the crash has not been released. Two International Security Assistance Force service members and one ISAF civilian died following an aircraft mishap in eastern Afghanistan today, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... front man said in a statement to the Daily News. It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities. The MC-12 is traditionally used as a surveillance airplane, ABC News reports. The aircraft has multiple cameras, allowing an onboard technician to analyze data from different areas in real time. Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-11 |
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