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During his early years as an Army helicopter pilot, Kiowas, Cobras and Apaches were Col. Newman Shufflebarger's aircraft of choice. But when the Army called for him to take over as a Chinook ...
That pilot told an operations center that the crew had survived. A Black Hawk helicopter crew was sent to retrieve the downed Chinook crew. Pathfinders from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade were ...
Moore Jr., a flight school student at Fort Rucker, recently began the advanced track for the CH-47 Chinook helicopter ... His instructor pilot was his own father — Chief Warrant Officer 5 ...
Flight Lieutenants Richard Cook and Jonathan Tapper were found guilty of gross negligence by an RAF Board of Inquiry after their Chinook Mark 2 helicopter crashed on its sortie from Northern ...
The West Liberty, Iowa, soldier killed in the Nov. 2 downing of a Chinook helicopter over Iraq will be buried at 1 p.m. Tuesday with full military honors. The funeral for Bruce Smith will be held ...
An investigation into the loss of two Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLF) Boeing CH-47D Chinook transport helicopters in Afghanistan in 2005 has identified pilot error ...
“When we ride with the Blades and come down to the beach it gives us a real chance to look at the beach and at the clifftop and just see all those people out there watching us.” The Chinook ...
Chinook helicopter crash ... and safety of the aircraft at the time and make it very difficult to rule out categorically a technical fault as at least a cause of ZD576’s crash”.
The U.S. Army has grounded its entire fleet of some 400 CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters after engine fires broke out on a few of them, a spokeswoman for the service said Tuesday evening.