What the records say
- When
- 6 Aug 2011
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 34.02° N, 68.79° E
- Description
- U.S Military helicopter shootdown incident
- Deaths
- 38
- Injured
- 0
Extortion 17 shootdown
Attack on a U.S. military helicopter in Tangi Valley, Maidan Wardak Province
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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