Apache Crash Video Gets Laughs Online - But Helicopter Risks Are Deadly Serious -- Aol Defense
A YouTube video of an American AH-64 Apache attack helicopter crashing in Afghanistan has gone viral, with commentators expert and otherwise chiming in on the pilot's mistakes and appropriate punishments. The International Security Assistance Force told the Pentagon-supported newspaper Stars and Stripes that they "believe the video shows a crash which occurred in Paktika province on Feb. 6" and which is now under investigation, but ISAF has been otherwise unforthcoming.
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