UN Chopper Crash-Lands in Afghanistan, Crew Stranded
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A U.N. helicopter flying to retrieve ballot boxes after Afghanistan's landmark election was forced to crash-land in a remote snow-covered corner of the country on Tuesday, officials said.
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All 24 people on board a helicopter   chartered by conservation group WWF in Nepal were killed after   the aircraft crashed in bad weather two days ago, officials   said on Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan A UN official says two workers held hostage in Afghanistan are looking forward to some peace and quiet. The women, one from Northern Ireland and the other from Kosovo, took off from Kabul today aboard a UN plane.
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A U.S. military helicopter crashed in  western Afghanistan on Thursday, injuring its two pilots, the  U.S. military said.
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A helicopter from the U.S.-led coalition force in Afghanistan crashed on Sunday after reporting engine failure, the coalition said, but it did not say if there were any casualties.
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A helicopter carrying NATO-led military in Afghanistan went down late Wednesday, with seven soldiers &quot;known dead,&quot; the force said as the Taliban claimed to have shot down the chopper.
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An aircraft carrying three U.S. military  passengers and three American civilian crew is presumed to have  crashed in mountains in central Afghanistan at the weekend,  military and security sources said on Tuesday.
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A helicopter from Afghanistan's U.S.-led coalition force crashed on Sunday after reporting an engine failure, the coalition said, but it did not say if there were any casualties.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A British plane crashed   in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 14 military personnel in   Britain's worst single loss in the country, British and NATO   officials said.
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A helicopter with 24 people on board -- including Western aid workers and Nepalese diplomats -- reportedly crashed Saturday in a remote Nepalese village.
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NATO and Afghan troops retrieved the flight recorder from a crashed Afghan airliner Sunday, an Afghan official said, 10 days after the plane smashed into a mountain in a snowstorm killing all 104 people on board.
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A Macedonian Army helicopter returning from a peacekeeping mission in Bosnia crashed Saturday in foggy conditions, killing all 11 people on board, the Defense Ministry said.
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NATO troops reached the wreckage of an Afghan airliner Monday, four days after it crashed into a snowy mountain peak, and began the gruesome task of searching for survivors among the 104 people on board, an alliance spokesman said.
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CHENARI, Afghanistan -- NATO helicopter gunships found the shattered wreckage of a missing Afghan airliner on a frigid mountain east of the capital yesterday, and officials said they believed none of the 104 people aboard could have survived the crash.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Engine failure brought down a UN helicopter sent to collect ballot boxes from northeastern Afghanistan yesterday, injuring no one but causing a new glitch in efforts to tally the results of the country's landmark presidential election.
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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.