Black Hawk helicopter crashes during Taliban training, 3 killed
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- 12 Sep 2022
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A Black Hawk helicopter commandeered by the Taliban after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan crashed during a training session at the weekend, killing two pilots and a crew member, the defense ministry said.
The incident occurred Saturday on the campus of the country’s defense university in the capital Kabul.
The Black Hawk crashed due to “a technical problem during a training exercise,” the ministry said, adding five crew members were also injured.
When exiting the country last year, the US military left behind billions of dollars worth of aircraft, vehicles, weapons and other hardware — much of which it said had been rendered inoperable.
Some helicopters were also flown by former Afghan government forces to central Asian countries before the Taliban took full control of the country. Read More…
