U.S. Helicopter Crashes in Indonesia

[spotbird]

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - A U.S. helicopter with 10 people on board crashed in a rice paddy as it was trying to land at the Banda Aceh airport Monday while on a tsunami-relief operation, injuring at least two U.S. servicemen, a U.S. military spokesman said.

The injured men, along with eight other Navy personnel, were being flown back to their ship in the Lincoln battle group, said Capt. Joe Plenzler, a U.S. military spokesman in Medan, 250 miles southeast of Banda Aceh.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050110/ap_on_re_as/tsunami_helicopter_crash

There could not be a world where I could bear the loss of my son. But if that world was to exsist I could, barely with time, survive if he died for others.

[jbnow]

1. Glad they survived

As devestating as conditions are there I suspect the military there are happy to serve, proud of what they are contributing.

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