Two US pilots killed in helicopter crash in Iraq (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-12-27 15:03
Two U.S. pilots were killed in a helicopter crash in western Baghdad on
Monday evening, the military said on Tuesday.
"Two pilots assigned to Task Force Baghdad, were killed when their helicopter
crashed in western Baghdad on December 26," the US military said in a statement.
"There was no hostile fire involved," the brief statement added.
The deaths has brought to more than 2,165 the number of U.S. military
personnel who have died in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March
2003.
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