A CH-53 Sea Stallion transport helicopter crashed in western Iraq
on Wednesday killing 31 US soldiers, reported CNN.
The US military had said earlier that a Marine transport
helicopter had crashed in the early hours and that a search and
rescue operation was underway.
The crash occurred shortly after midnight in the western desert
close to the Jordanian border, the military said, without giving
further details.
In November 2003, two Black Hawks collided and crashed in Mosul,
Iraq after being attacked, killing 17 soldiers.
(Xinhua News Agency January 27, 2005)
