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CH-47 cockpit view, 2020. An example of a British upgraded version is the HC.4; the first HC.4 first flew on 9 December 2010. [12] A commercial model of the Chinook, the Boeing-Vertol Model 234, is used worldwide for logging, construction, fighting forest fires, and supporting petroleum extraction operations.
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
21 June – Two Boeing CH-47 Chinooks of the Imperial Iranian Air Force are shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces after straying into Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic airspace. One aircraft is destroyed with the loss of eight lives. The other is damaged; it is later repaired with permission from Soviet authorities and returns to Iran.
Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six is a 2015 non-fiction expose, written by best-selling author and former U.S. Navy JAG Officer Don Brown, about the 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan of a United States Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
Boeing CH-47 Chinook in Australian service; Boeing Chinook (UK variants) Boeing Vertol BV-347; Bravo November This page was last edited on 11 June 2024, at 22:09 ...
The 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown was an incident on 21 June 1978, when four Boeing CH-47 Chinooks of the Imperial Iranian Air Force strayed into Soviet airspace during a training mission, with the result being that two of them were shot down by the PVO. [1] [2] [3]
A Boeing CH-47 Chinook [6] came under enemy fire, causing Navy SEAL Neil C. Roberts to fall. The helicopter landed 4.5 miles (7.2 km) away from where Roberts was killed. [ 7 ] Once on the ground, Chapman provided directions to another helicopter to pick them up.
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