U.S.: Copter Was Shot Down
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A Marine helicopter that crashed last week near Baghdad was actually shot down. Are the insurgents using better antiaircraft technology? The U.S. says no. By the Associated Press.
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By Angela Nagel and Susanne Nadeau, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Dec. 9--A student and instructor in a UND helicopter had engine trouble Friday morning and put the aircraft down in a field south of Grand Forks.
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The U.S. military confirmed on Wednesday that a transport helicopter had come down near Baghdad but declined comment on any casualties.
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Eight U.S. soldiers were killed and 14 injured when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous, snow-covered area of southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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By OMAR SINAN  CAIRO, Egypt - An Al-Qaida-linked insurgent group posted a Web video Friday showing what it said was the downing of a U.S. military helicopter earlier this week. Seven Americans were killed in the crash.  The U.S.
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A transport helicopter that crashed in Iraq last week killing all seven on board was brought down by a "sophisticated piece of weaponry", the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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The Air Force said Tuesday that Capt. Kermit Evans, a U.S. Air Force civil engineer explosive ordnance flight commander, was among four American service members killed when their helicopter went down in Iraq.
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A Georgian military helicopter was shot   down over the breakaway South Ossetia province on Sunday,   Russian news agencies quoted rebel and Georgian government   officials as saying.
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One person was killed and three people were seriously injured in a tour helicopter crash Sunday on Kauai, the second fatal helicopter accident on the island in four days, authorities say.
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Two U.S. Cobra helicopters have been shot  down near the Iraqi city of Falluja, Al Arabiya television said  on Thursday, quoting U.S. military sources.
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SHAH JOY, Afghanistan. Feb. 18 -- A U.S. helicopter suffered a "sudden, unexplained loss of power" and crashed Sunday in southeastern Afghanistan, killing eight American troops, the military said. Fourteen people on board survived.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A U.S.-made helicopter on an  anti-drugs mission crashed in the Colombian jungle on Thursday,  killing all 20 Colombian soldiers aboard, the army said.
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The US military says it killed six militants who had fired a rocket on an attack helicopter in southern Afghanistan. Officials say after insurgents in Zabul province fired on the helicopter, a US gunship returned fire, killing the six rebels.
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A helicopter which crash-landed north near Baghdad was shot down, the military says.
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A U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter  crashed in foggy weather in central Texas on Monday and there  was no information available about injuries or deaths for the  seven people on board, a military spokeswoman said.
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A U.S. Army helicopter crashed Friday in a hail of gunfire north of Baghdad, police and witnesses said &#151; the fourth lost in Iraq in the last two weeks. The U.S. command said two crew members were killed, and the top U.S. general conceded that insurgent ground fire has become more effective.
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the weekend and confirmed that the six Americans aboard all died, the US military said. crashed in Bamiyan province on Saturday, said US military spokesman Major Mark McCann.