BAGHDAD, Jan 16: Two US pilots were killed when their Apache combat helicopter went down north of the Iraqi capital on Monday, the US military said, without giving the cause of the crash.
The two-man crew was killed when their helicopter “crashed in a swampy area north of Taji”, it said in a statement. “The aircraft was conducting a combat air patrol. It is premature to determine the cause of the crash.”
It was the third US chopper lost in 10 days in Iraq.
A journalist for Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television station, speaking from the scene, said the helicopter plunged to earth in a ball of flames after being hit by a rocket.—AFP
