why is it always helicopters ?

[pudgy]

TweetFour U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash

The Associated Press

KUWAIT CITY -- A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on night training crashed Tuesday in the Kuwaiti desert, killing all four crew members. The Kuwaiti military said sandstorms were reported in the area at the time the chopper went down.

The aircraft, which belonged to the Army's V Corps, was part of the force that has massed in this Persian Gulf emirate for a possible invasion of Iraq. The names of the dead U.S. soldiers were not immediately made public.

Kuwait army spokesman Col. Youssef al-Mulla said the helicopter went down in bad weather. Sandstorms and high winds were reported overnight and continued Tuesday afternoon.

The UH-60 Black Hawk crashed about 1 a.m. near Camp New Jersey about 30 miles northwest of Kuwait City, an Army statement said.

The helicopter was part of the 158th Aviation Regiment, 5th Battalion, of the 12th Aviation Brigade based in Giebelstadt, Germany. The group is attached to V Corps' 11th Attack Helicopter Regiment, which is part of some 9,000 troops from the corps deployed as part of the recent U.S. buildup. It includes a headquarters unit commanded by Lt. Gen. William Wallace.

V Corps spokesman Bill Roche said from the corps headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany, that it was still too early to speculate about a cause of the crash.

"A V Corps safety team is already on site, and then additional people are coming in from the U.S. Army Safety Center in Fort Rucker, Ala.," Roche said.

The bodies are expected to be brought back to Germany, Roche said.

The helicopter was one of two V Corps helicopters participating in the exercise. The other returned safely.

The soldiers' identifications were withheld until their families could be notified. The crew were the only personnel on board, the Army said.

On Jan. 30, an MH-60, an adapted version of the Black Hawk, crashed in a training mission seven miles east of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Four members of an elite aviation regiment were killed.

More than 70,000 U.S. troops are training in the Kuwaiti desert in preparation for a possible invasion of Iraq. President Bush has threatened to use force to disarm Baghdad of weapons of mass destruction if it does not do so voluntarily according to U.N. resolutions. Iraq denies it has such weapons.

[LOCO]

Tweethehe, canadian Sea King choppers are like 50y old and they are still fine... rarely ever anything happens...

[pudgy]

Tweetok loco back to canadian chat wit you , enough of your socialism , i only have so much lysol

[LOCO]

Tweet:p

[jack hust]

Tweetvery sad

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[Lothar]

Tweetwhy is it always blackhawk helicopters?

[Speedracer59]

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Originally posted by LOCO
hehe, canadian Sea King choppers are like 50y old and they are still fine... rarely ever anything happens...

When is the last time they were used for somthing besides .......ever? J/K bro. This is an awful tragedy.

[LOCO]

Tweetspeeedracer.. they actually use them all the time... (it's the only they got, heh)...
the governemt however is saying now sometihng how they are gonna update em. or something like that..... (it's probably gonna be the same thing like with the submarines... the ybought some used ones from britain, and they turned out to be crappy... busted.... leaking... etc)
but i'm sure they will use them for atleast another 10 or so years..

[Speedracer59]

TweetI wonder were the blackhawks are made, anyone know? It seems like more people die from shitty equipment and human error than from our opposition.

[Lothar]

TweetI know that Sikorsky makes em, but not where the plant is.

[LOCO]

TweetStratford, Connecticut - Sikorsky's plant headquarters