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2 Navy SEALs killed in Afghan crash from Utah

Last updated Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 8:21am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Two Navy SEALs killed over the weekend in Afghanistan when their helicopter was shot down were raised in Utah, and died doing what they loved, serving their country, family and friends said.

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Portraits of Navy SEALS killed in helicopter crash

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 8:25am

The Navy SEALS who died aboard a downed helicopter in Afghanistan came to the special forces from far-flung corners of the country, some motivated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They were intensely patriotic and talented young men with a love of physical challenges and a passion for the high-risk job they chose.

Thirty Americans -- 22 of them SEALS -- and eight Afghans were killed Saturday when a rocket-propelled grenade fired by a Taliban insurgent downed their Chinook helicopter en route to a combat mission. All but two of the SEALs were from SEAL Team 6, the unit that killed Osama bin Laden, although military officials said none of the crash victims was on that mission in Pakistan against the al-Qaida leader.

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Photos of Navy SEAL Chris Campbell sit on the wood burning stove of his parents, Diane and Larry Campbell, Monday morning Aug. 8, 2011, in Jacksonville, N.C. On the left is a picture Chris with his wife Angelina taken approximately 3 yrs ago, and on the right is a picture of Campbell in his Navy uniform taken approximately 5 months ago. Campbell, 36, was one of 22 SEALs killed Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, along with eight other U.S. troops and eight Afghans when their helicopter was brought down in Afghanistan, his family told The Daily News of Jacksonville. (AP Photo/The Jacksonville Daily News, John Althouse)

Military killed Taliban who downed US helicopter

Lolita C. Baldor, Pauline Jelinek The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 10:10am

WASHINGTON -- International forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. and Afghan forces over the weekend, but they are still seeking the top insurgent leader they were going after in Saturday's mission, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

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FILE - US soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, secure the area after exiting a Chinook helicopter, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, in this Sunday, June 18, 2006 file photo. Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter Saturday Aug. 6, 2011 similar to this one shown during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Osama bin Laden, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said. It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Troops in copter crash were after Taliban leader

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, August 8, 2011 - 1:40pm

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S.-led coalition says that the 30 U.S. troops and seven Afghan soldiers who died in a weekend helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan were on a mission targeting a Taliban leader.

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Helicopter crashes near Ogden-Hinckley

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, February 4, 2011 - 12:49am

OGDEN -- The Federal Aviation Administration says a helicopter crashed a few miles northwest of the Ogden-Hinckley Airport on Thursday evening.

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6 feared dead in guard copter crash in Puerto Rico

Danica Coto, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:13am

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Puerto Rico National Guard helicopter crashed in the ocean while returning from a drug raid. The body of one of the six people on board has been found and the remaining five are feared dead, officials said Tuesday.

The body was found nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) off the coast in front of the Grand Melia resort late Tuesday morning, said Nino Correa, search and rescue director of the Emergency Management Agency. The victim has not yet been identified.

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Courtesy of New Mexico State Police/The Associated Press
This undated photo provided by New Mexico State Police shows state police Sgt. Andrew Tingwall standing in front of the department's planes, including the actual police helicopter (left) that crashed during a rescue mission in the mountains near Santa Fe, N.M., killing Tingwall after retrieving lost hiker Megumi Yamamoto.

Officials cite 'layers of failure' in copter crash

Joan Lowy, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 6:00pm

WASHINGTON - A firefighting helicopter crash that killed nine people two years ago was caused by deceptions on the part of the company that leased the aircraft to the U.S. Forest Service and a lack of federal safety oversight, the National Transportation Safety Board determined Tuesday.

Carson Helicopters of Grants Pass, Ore., intentionally altered documents to exaggerate the helicopter's performance capabilities in order to win a Forest Service contract, the board said.

But the Federal Aviation Administration and the Forest Service missed several opportunities to uncover those problems, the board said.

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