KABUL - Eight American soldiers were killed and fourteen others were injured in the crash of the helicopter on the ground twin-rotor Chinook crashed in Afghanistan on transport south-east before dawn. They disclosed confidential sources of ISAF, the International Force for Security Assistance under NATO command, currently led by the United States.
The aircraft can accommodate up to thirty passengers, according to eyewitnesses crashed in the southern province of Zabul, and more specifically in the mountains of Shah Joy district, about 250 kilometers from Kabul and a couple from the way that linking the capital with Kandahar, a former stronghold of the former regime of Taliban .
A representative of the latter , Qari Mohammad Yousef Ahmadi, via satellite phone showed up to claim the killing of the helicopter, saying that was hit overnight by a surface-to-air missile , adding that The airplane would be able to walk away, and then losing share in imprecise area. Ahmadi, however, specified that the attack would take place in another southern province, to Helmand.
Similar claims by the Taliban in the past have also proved to be completely false, except in a case dating back to 2005, when foreign troops were killed seventeen. A NATO spokesman Colonel Tom Collins, has denied that the fall was due to "hostile fire" , noting that the pilot had radioed the need to land due to mechanical problems. Subsequently, however, the American command sources explained that the helicopter crashed "suddenly and without apparent reason" . While not confirming the hypothesis of a killing by the Taliban, this statement leaves open any hypothesis regarding the accident.
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