"fliegende" Verluste während OIF seit 01. Februar 2005

[Tschaika]

am Samstag (2009-09-19) ist ein UH-60 Black Hawk nördlich von Baghdad, in der Nähe der Balad Air Base abgestürzt. Dabei kam ein Mensch ums Leben und 12 Weitere wurden verletzt ...

"Black Hawk crash kills US service member in Iraq
...
BAGHDAD — A Black Hawk helicopter crashed at a major American air base in Iraq, killing one U.S. service member and injuring 12 others, the military said Sunday.
The UH-60 Black Hawk went down Saturday night at the Balad Air Base, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
The military said the cause of the crash was under investigation and gave no other details.
The helicopter went down on a night of high winds that tore through the area, whipping up a fierce sandstorm that was followed by thunder, lightning and rain.
The name and other details about the service member killed were being withheld pending notification of next of kin. ..."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD9AR3KR82

 

[mcnoch]

Eine noch nicht näher identifizierte US-Drohne ist in Mosul in ein Gebäude einer Regierungspartei gekracht. Feineinwirkungen werden zwar nicht völlig ausgeschlossen, aber es gibt bislang auch keine Hinweise darauf.

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_drone_crashes_into_Iraqi_party_offices_military_999.html

 

[Tschaika]

zwei Piloten kamen beim Absturz Ihres Hubschraubers am Sonntag (2009-11-08) ums Leben

"Nov 9 (Reuters) - Two U.S. army pilots were killed when their helicopter made a hard landing in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, on Sunday, the U.S. military said.
The incident was under investigation and there was no immediate indication that enemy action was involved.
Following are the latest figures for soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003:
U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:
United States 4,362
Britain 179
Other nations 139

IRAQIS:
Military Between 4,900 and 6,375#
Civilians Between 93,897 and 102,451*

# = Think-tank estimates for military under Saddam Hussein killed during the 2003 war. No reliable official figures have been issued since new security forces were set up in late 2003.

* = From www.iraqbodycount.net (IBC), run by academics and peace activists, based on reports from at least two media sources. The IBC says on its website the figure underestimates the true number of casualties.
...."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L9205304.htm

 

[Tschaika]

beim Absturz am 2009-11-08 handelt es sich um ein OH-58D der 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division

 

[Tschaika]

am Sonntag (2010-02-21) ist ein OH-58D im Nord-Irak (in der Nähe des Qayyarah Airfield West, ca. 60 km südlich von Mosul) abgestürzt, beide Piloten kamen dabei ums Leben. Erste Veröffentlichugnen sprechen von keiner Feindeinwirkung ("no hostile fire")

"Two Army pilots killed in Iraq helicopter crash, US says
Associated Press / February 22, 2010
BAGHDAD - Two American Army pilots were killed yesterday in a helicopter crash on a base in northern Iraq, the US military said.
The military said there were no enemy forces present and no hostile fire reported. It said the accident was under investigation, and the pilots’ names were being withheld pending notification of relatives. ..."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2010/02/22/two_army_pilots_killed_in_iraq_helicopter_crash_us_says/

"...
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military says two Army helicopter pilots have been killed in an accident on a base in northern Iraq. In a statement, the military says there were no "enemy forces" present and no hostile fire reported, but the aircraft made "hard landing." That phrase often means a crash.
..."
http://www.9and10news.com/Category/Story/?id=207794&cID=3

"...
Two Tennessee Army National Guard soldiers with Louisville's 1/230th Air Cavalry died Sunday in a helicopter accident in Iraq, military officials announced Tuesday.
Capt. Marcus Ray Alford, Knoxville, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Billie Jean Grinder, Gallatin, were killed Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
...
Military officials said there were no enemy forces involved in the helicopter accident, which happened near Qayyarah Airfield West (Q-West) about 30 miles south of Mosul.
This OH58-D Kiowa Warrior is similar to the helicopter used by members of the 278th in Iraq.
No hostile fire was reported, and the accident is still under investigation, officials said.
“(Alford) was a helicopter pilot,” Lewis said. “The men from the military termed it a ‘hard crash.'” "
http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20100224/NEWS/302249982

 

[Tschaika]

ein US-Hubschrauber ist in der Nähe von Tikrit abgestürzt, dabei kam ein Soldat ums Leben und drei Weitere wurden verletzt

"The U.S. military says one of its helicopters has crashed in northern Iraq, killing an American soldier and injuring three others.
The military says the cause of the crash late Saturday is under investigation, but is not believed to be linked to enemy fire. An Iraqi military official says the helicopter went down near the city of Tikrit. ..."
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Military-Helicopter-Crashes-in-Northern-Iraq-91390404.html

 

[Tschaika]

Ergänzung zum notgelandeten/gestüztem Hubschrauber (UH-60, 95-26648) vom 2010-04-17 in de Nähe von Camp Speicher, bei Tikrit, notgelandet/gestürzt. Dabei kam ein Soldat ums Leben:
"Fort Benning Ranger dies in helicopter crash in Iraq
A Fort Benning Ranger died Sunday in Iraq while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. Department of Defense said.
Staff Sgt. James R. Patton, 23, died from injuries sustained when the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter he was in crashed during a combat operation.
Patton was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment.
... "
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2010/04/22/1096182/fort-benning-ranger-dies-in-helicopter.html

ein anderer Hubschrauber mußte am Samstag (2010-05-15) notlanden und wurde am Montag geborgen:
"Iraqi and U.S. forces recover disabled helicopter in southern Iraq
BASRA, IRAQ (BNO NEWS) -- A joint team of Iraqi police and U.S. forces secured and recovered a disabled U.S. helicopter on Monday after it was forced to make a precautionary landing Saturday, U.S. military said.
The team of Iraqi and U.S. forces were able to secure the landing site northeast of Nasiriyah and repair the aircraft before U.S. pilots flew it back to Tallil Air Base. ...
The aircraft was conducting its daily mission when it made a precautionary landing because of a mechanical problem. No one was injured during the landing, the U.S. military added.
The incident was not combat-related and is under investigation."
http://wireupdate.com/local/iraqi-and-u-s-forces-recover-disabled-helicopter-in-southern-iraq/
"... A U.S. helicopter crashed landed due to technical issues, but the passengers survived the incident in Nasariya. ..."
http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2010/05/15/saturday-8-iraqis-killed-14-wounded/

 

[Tschaika]

in gewisser Weise ist das auch Teil (eher Konsequenz aus) aus/von OIF: wie man aus den Dokumenten, die von Wikileaks veröffentlich wurden, ersehen konnte, wurden über 180 ehemalige irakische Militärpiloten (die am Irak-Iran-Krieg teilgenommen haben) durch iranische Kommandotrupps - gleichsam systematisch - liquidiert.
Ich habe hier mal den kompletten Artikel gepostet ... Kürzungen schiene mir unpassend:
"A brief paragraph in the mountain of Wikileaks documents shed a sliver of light on what officials claim is a viscious and coldly efficient Iranian campaign of revenge on Iraqi air force pilots who bombed Iran during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
"Many former Iraqi fighter pilots who flew sorties against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war were now on Iran's hit list (NOTE: According to [Name removed], Iran had already assassinated 180 Iraqi pilots. END NOTE)," the Dec. 14, 2009 confidential U.S. cable stated.
The systematic elimination of Iraqi air force pilots by Iran was a little noticed vendetta amid the crossfire of ethnic fighting and urban combat that convulsed Iraq in the years after the U.S. invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime.
Iran used the chaos in the aftermath of the invasion to settle scores from the Iran-Iraq war, an eight-year slug fest from 1980 to 1988 in which an estimated 500,000 Iranians and Iraqis died. The war was largely a bloody standoff that resembled World War I at times with trench warfare, poison gas, human wave and bayonet attacks.
Iran, however, has taken a special vengeance on the pilots of the Iraqi air force and the lawlessness that followed the collapse of Saddam's regime gave Iran its opportunity.
In addition to the 182 pilots who have been hunted down and killed by Iranian agents, the assassination campaign prompted another 800 Iraqi pilots to flee the country, according to statistics released by the Iraqi Defense Ministry.
The targeting of air force pilots began in Baghdad's largely Shiite neighborhood of Karradah and reached its peak in the holy month of Ramadan in 2005 when 36 pilots were gunned down in that neighborhood.
Residents of Karradah refer to that killing season as the Black Ramadan.
The Iranian fury was on display in the death of former pilot Sayyid Hussien, a Shiite who felt that he was relatively safe running a hardware store in the Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah. He was wrong. Shiite militia dressed all in black and wearing masks shot him dead in a daylight hit, emptying an entire magazine of 30 bullets into Hussien's head.
During Hussien's funeral, his distraught mother Um Sayyid Hussien cried, "May Allah curse Iran. They took my son.""
http://abcnews.go.com/International/iranian-revenge-iraqi-air-force-pilots/story?id=12298641
und Teil 2
"Iran's Secret Revenge on Iraqi Pilots
A pilot who has remained in Iraq told ABC News, "I took part in the Iraq-Iran war. We had many missions hitting targets inside Iran. It was war time."
The pilot asked that his name be withheld out of concern for his safety and for his family's safety.
"I had many of my fellow pilots get killed and the killer is not known, never been captured," he said. "I do not know why they are killing us. Just because we had to follow orders during war time?"
By the time of the U.S. invasion in 2003, the Iraqi air force was already crippled. Its planes were prevented from taking off by constant patrols of U.S. fighter jets. In an attempt to save his jets from being bombed, Saddam buried many of them in the desert.
"We felt like we had a broken wing," the pilot said. "We could not do a thing to defend or to show the ... pride we once had."
Then came the killing of pilots and the former flyer said he had to repeatedly change his residence, gave up his home in the Sunni area of Dora and now lives only in what he calls an undisclosed location.
Iranian officials in Baghdad and Washington did not respond to repeated calls for response to the allegations.
In a stark recogniton of the peril that Iraq's former fighter pilots face, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has offered the pilots a safe haven in the Kurdish cities of Irbil and Sulimaniyah. That is ironic because before the U.S. invasion, American pilots patrolled the area to make sure Iraqi pilots didn't venture into the Kurdish region."
http://abcnews.go.com/International/iranian-revenge-iraqi-air-force-pilots/story?id=12298641&page=2

 

[Tschaika]

in einem Beitrag über die Online-Gefahren von und für Soldaten wurde auf ein Beispiel aus 2007 verwiesen, wo die geposteten Fotos von im Irak stationierten AH-64 im Internet, Angreifern die Zerstörung von vier (sic!) dieser Hubschrauber ermöglichte:

"... But soldiers who upload photos to Facebook "could broadcast the exact location of their unit," wrote Rodewig, citing Steve Warren, an administrative officer in the intelligence office of the Army's Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE). Warren gave Rodewig a chilling example of the consequences of geo-tagging from 2007:

"When a new fleet of helicopters arrived with an aviation unit at a base in Iraq, some soldiers took pictures on the flightline, he said. From the photos that were uploaded to the Internet, the enemy was able to determine the exact location of the helicopters inside the compound and conduct a mortar attack, destroying four of the AH-64 Apaches." ..."
http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/us-army-soldiers-check-ins-can-kill-405150

Klingt nach dem Ereignis von 2007-05-14, als bei einem Angriff auf Taji nach damaligen Angaben ein Hubschrauber zerstört und 9 beschädigt wurden ...