An Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter was “destroyed” in a “hard landing” in Afghanistan last week ... which puts it on the night of May 24th. Army Col. David Butler said the helicopter ...

This starry-night photograph of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan — snapped by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod of the U.S. Army — really caught my attention. Chinooks are massive air machines ...

He and some of his fellow “Night Stalkers” felt the ... Soldiers sit on the rear deck of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter while flying over southern Afghanistan Oct. 19, 2010.

“Even at night – especially at night – a Chinook makes a lot of noise as ... including all who have served in Afghanistan,” said President Obama in the wake of the tragedy.

(File Photo/Agence France-Presse) On a moonless night, an Army Chinook helicopter swept low over the Tangi Valley, a strip of forbidding terrain in eastern Afghanistan teeming with Taliban and ...

A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook ... hard landing in Afghanistan, according to a Defense Department official and media reports. The incident involved a "hard landing" during the night between May 24 ...

The photo quickly became an iconic image of U.S. troops adapting and fighting in Afghanistan’s rugged, inhospitable terrain. A first landing attempt by the CH-47 Chinook crew managed to get the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan-- The Chinook helicopter that insurgents shot ... "When the helicopter came at night, the Taliban were hiding in the bushes around the area," he said. He said coalition forces ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The 30 U.S. troops ... though he said he could not provide details. Every night, scores of helicopters like the blasted Chinook leave bases and land amidst Taliban ...

Afghanistan has more U.S. special ... May 5, 2006: U.S. Chinook crashes while attempting a night landing on a small mountaintop in eastern Kunar province, killing 10 U.S. soldiers.