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Date: | Sunday 20 January 2002 |
Time: | 22:00 |
Type: | Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion |
Owner/operator: | US Marine Corps (USMC) |
Registration: | 163082 |
MSN: | 65-576 |
Year of manufacture: | 1986 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 60 km south of Bagram, Northern Afghanistan -
Afghanistan
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Bagram airfield |
Destination airport: | Bagram airfield |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Two Marines were killed and five others were injured when a Marine CH-53E deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom crashed yesterday at approximately 10 p.m. EST in a remote region 60 kilometers south of Bagram in Northern Afghanistan. The injured have been evacuated to a medical facility within the Afghanistan theatre of operations.
The helicopter was destroyed to prevent it from falling into unfriendly hands.
The Marines and the aircraft were assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 (HMH-361), the "Flying Tigers" of Marine Aircraft Group 16.
Sources:
Scramble 279
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=3215
http://www.joebaugher.com/navy_serials/thirdseries21.html
http://www.helis.com/database/cn/23275/
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/28/afghan.crash/index.html
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Sep-2012 02:12 |
krasatpi |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |