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By the end of U.S. military operations in Iraq in December 2011, several Apaches had been shot down by enemy fire and lost in accidents. In 2006, an Apache was downed by a Soviet-made Strela 2 (SA-7) in Iraq, despite it being typically able to avoid such missiles. [125]
20 January – An U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes near Najaf. One soldier is killed. [82] 20 January – An UH-60 Black Hawk from C Company, 1–131 Aviation Regiment [83] is shot down by a combination of several heavy machine guns and a shoulder-fired missile north-east of Baghdad. All 12 crew and passengers on board are killed in ...
The two pilots were captured and shown on television along with the helicopter. [5] Pentagon officials stated the captured Apache was destroyed via airstrike the following day, [6] [7] Iraqi officials claimed a farmer named Ali Ubaid Mankash with a czech-made Brno rifle shot down the Apache. After the invasion, the farmer denied any involvement.
After two AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes this month, the Army National Guard's director has mandated that all helicopter units stand down to “review safety policies and procedures.”
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
And in April 2023, two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters returning to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska, after a training flight collided, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth, the ...
The National Guard AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed during a “routine training flight” around 2 p.m. near Booneville, Mississippi, according to the release.
27 January – A Mil Mi-8 of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is shot down near Shelkovskaya, Chechnya. All fourteen people on board are killed. All fourteen people on board are killed. 16 July – Sikorsky S-76 A G-BJVX of Bristow Helicopters crashes into the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk following the loss of its rotor head in ...