Copter shot down in Iraq; pilots rescued
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Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter south of Baghdad, and the two pilots were rescued with minor injuries, the military said Tuesday. The OH-58D Kiowa Attack helicopter was brougt down by ground fire on Monday. After an Apache helicopter rescued the two pilots, a U.S. warplane dropped two 500-pound, laser-guided bombs on the downed craft to destroy it, the military said in a statement.
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Iraq's new air force took to the skies this week for the first time since the U.S. invaded last year and disbanded the country's armed forces, the U.S. military said.
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A U.S. military sent a quick reaction force to the site of downed helicopter northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
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A US helicopter goes down near Baghdad, in the fifth such incident in Iraq so far this year, US officials say.
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US marines launch a search and rescue operation after a helicopter full of troops crashes in western Iraq.
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A U.S. Army helicopter crashed Friday in a hail of gunfire north of Baghdad, police and witnesses said -- the fourth lost in Iraq in the last two weeks
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HADITHA, Iraq  - One Marine was killed and three servicemen were missing after a U.S. Marine Sea Knight helicopter with 16 people on board made an emergency landing in water in western Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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The U.S. military said six Iraqi civilians were among 11 people killed in an air strike by an attack helicopter north of Baghdad early on Tuesday.
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A Sea Knight helicopter that crashed last week northwest of Baghdad was shot down, the U.S. military said Wednesday, reversing earlier statements that it appeared to have been due to mechanical failure.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - A U.S. helicopter was shot down  over Falluja on Tuesday as U.S.-led forces were pressing home  an offensive on the rebel-held city.
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A Greek fighter jet and a Turkish warplane collided Tuesday near the island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea, the Greek government said. A rescue operation was launched for the three missing pilots, two Turks and one Greek.
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A U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashed early on Wednesday in western Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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BAGHDAD, March 3 -- Several al-Qaeda in Iraq insurgents who had targeted U.S. helicopters were killed in an airstrike north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. A second strike killed members of another al-Qaeda cell that has orchestrated car bombings.
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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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The US military in Iraq says it is checking reports that a helicopter has gone down north of Baghdad.
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By ROBERT H. REID  BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashed in flames Wednesday in a field northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S. military said. It was the fifth U.S.
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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.