U.S. helicopter, jet down in Iraq raid

• cavsg

  12 Jun 03, 22:25

  (CNN) -- Coalition forces battled loyalists of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein early Thursday in a raid on what U.S. Central Command called a terrorist training camp northwest of Baghdad.
  
  An assault on the camp began with a coordinated airstrike, according to Central Command, and a firefight followed involving ground forces, including members of the 101st Airborne Division.
  
  An Apache attack helicopter was shot down, apparently by hostile fire, during the mission, and an F-16 fighter plane crashed after suffering a mechanical failure, Central Command said.
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/12/sprj.irq.main/index.html
• nismoS132

  13 Jun 03, 08:15

  i wonder what constitutes mechanical failure.
  
  not to mean that they do not happen, but they seem to be happening far too often.
• SingaporeTyrannosaur

  13 Jun 03, 15:43

  They are American lah... opps troops
• Shotgun

  15 Jun 03, 23:28

  The term mechanical failure is used when they are trying to push the cause of the crash on the machine, but have yet figured out what the failure was. Didn't say whether the mechanical failure was caused by ingesting a MANPAD up it's arse.