Spate of U.S. Military Chopper Crashes Likely Unrelated -- Mark Thompson, Time
14 troops have been killed — six of them in combat — in chopper crashes in the past month, but officials say there's no connection
There has been a rash of military chopper crashes recently — including a so-called “hard landing” that killed a U.S. soldier late Wednesday in Georgia — but Pentagon officials and helicopter experts say they’re random, coincidental occurrences.
“We’re always worried about aircraft mishaps, and certainly folks losing their lives and limbs to these things,” Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday. “I don’t think we’re seeing any trends between these — these are just tragic mishaps.”
The four crashes over the past month have killed 14 troops. Officials doubt there’s a common thread because the crashes involved two different kinds of helicopters. And while three of the crashes involved the Pentagon’s tried-and-true UH-60 Black Hawk, they were three different versions — and one of them apparently went down due to enemy fire.
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My Comment: Bad luck and coincidences is the official excuse .... but one has to wonder if there is more to the story than what they are telling us.
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