A man stands next to the wreckage of a US helicopter after a nighttime raid by US special-operations forces against the leader of ISIS in Syria's Idlib province, in February 2022. RAMI AL SAYED/AFP
Business Insider: Another helicopter went down on a US special-ops raid. Here's how elite aviators prepare for that worst-case scenario.
* An MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down during a special-operations raid in Syria this month.
* The helicopter malfunctioned and had to be destroyed because it couldn't fly back after the raid.
* US aviators prepare for the malfunctions, crashes, and other mishaps that are a risk on such missions.
Last week, Delta Force conducted a counterterrorism operation in northwestern Syria that killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of ISIS.
The hours-long raid killed 13 people, including six children and four women. There were no American casualties, but that almost wasn't the case.
During the operation, an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flown by the elite pilots of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, nicknamed the "Night Stalkers," had to land after experiencing a malfunction. US forces then destroyed the chopper with an air strike to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.
For the Night Stalkers, the risk of a crash is omnipresent during these kinds of operations, but they are prepared for that possibility.
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