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CH-53 Super Stallion Down

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Another Blackhawk (edit: CH-53) down, this time during an exercise in South Korea, near the North Korean border. 5 crew members and 16 personnel were on board, but there were no fatalities.

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-ne ... r-20130416

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/16 ... r-n-korea/
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... Bit strange they are talking about a CH-53 Super Stallion in the Straits Times though :mrgreen:
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A CH-53E according to CNN.
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Ad.nl is calling it a CH-3 :wink:
http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1013/Buitenland/ ... orea.dhtml
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The b/n for this helo was 162484.
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From a USMC source,this helicopter was a CH-53E,one of the 31st MEU assets,based at MCAS Futenma and was destroyed in this crash.

The modex MAY have been ET-23 from HMM-262(C).
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