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| Afghanistan |
| Lucky Shot brings down Chinook |
| 2010-08-09 |
| The Canadian Forces has confirmed that a Chinook helicopter forced to make an emergency landing on Thursday was brought down by enemy small arms fire. The helicopter immediately burst into flames upon landing 20 km southwest of Kandahar city. Eight of the 21 people aboard the Canadian CH-147 Chinook suffered minor injuries. Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance, the commander of Task Force Kandahar, said small arms fire struck the aircraft, igniting a fire that forced the aircraft to land and then eventually destroyed it. |
| Posted by:Skunky Glins**** |
| #5 Whew! "Sierra Hotel" people. May God bless an keep you safe...Amen. |
| Posted by: Asymmetrical Triangulation 2010-08-09 21:53 |
| #4 The chin-hook is a very stable aircraft, thanks to the counter-rotating blades fore and aft. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-08-09 16:54 |
| #3 It just takes one "Golden Beebee." |
| Posted by: Spearong Prince of the Bunions9034 2010-08-09 16:49 |
| #2 Great flying! Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, and if you can re-use the airplane it's a great one. Well Good beats Dead any day, and considering all the parts and pieces that go into the drive train ( drive shafts, rotor heads, swashplates and all that dirty greasy metal neat stuff) and flight controls/hydraulics of that bird the shooter was unlucky ( but lucky for us) to not hit anything that prevented the use of them. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2010-08-09 15:27 |
| #1 Hats off to the pilots for landing the aircraft safely and saving all aboard. |
| Posted by: Steviski 2010-08-09 11:45 |