Скачать или смотреть WRAP US military briefing and pilots praising dead comrades plus crash site

(31 Jan 2003)

Bagram area
1. Wide shot plains and snow covered mountains with crashed helicopter in distance
2. Mid shot chopper in distance
3. Close up soldier walking towards crashed helicopter
4. Pan along wreckage with soldiers surrounding it
5. Soldiers picking up evidence markers
6. Soldiers sitting on jeep, pulls out to wide shot with crashed chopper
7. Close up wreckage
8. Soldiers standing around jeep

Bagram Airbase
9. Set-up shot of US military spokesman, Col. Roger King, at Bagram Air base
10. Cutaway reporters
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Roger King, US military spokesman at Bagram:
"The cause of the accident is obviously subject to investigation. We had no indications of hostile fire that's about as far as we can go on saying what may or may not have caused the aircraft to go down."
12. Cutaway soldiers
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Roger King, US military spokesman at Bagram:
"They understand there are dangers associated with their business, so if I was going to use one word to describe their mood, it would be 'professional.' They recognise that this is part of what they do, they still have a job to do and they'll get on with it."

Bagram Airbase
14. Wide shot airbase and Blackhawk helicopter on tarmac
15. Crew fixing propeller of Blackhawk helicopter on tarmac
16. Harrier jump jet

Bagram Airbase
17. Various maintenance crew working on aircrafts and soldiers
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Ryan, Blackhawk Pilot from Florida:
"Accidents happen, It's part of the job. It doesn't change how I feel about flying the blackhawk. I still feel safe flying mine, and it's tragic what happened and I feel sorry for the families of the people involved in the accident but I still feel, as I said, I still feel very confident flying the Blackhawk."
19. Cutaway crews on tarmac
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Stan Koziatek, Blackhawk crew member:
"It always hurts when you hear about an army pilot going down. You just never know why it went down, you just know that it is one of our fellow aviators. It hurts but we'll live with it, it is just part of the business. Something always happens, you just hope it never happens to one of us."
21. Helicopters and crews on tarmac
22. Wide shot tarmac

STORYLINE:

A day after four American soldiers died when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a nighttime training mission near Bagram Air Base, north of the capital Kabul, the runways here were quiet Friday.

Col. Roger King, spokesman for the U.S. military at the Bagram base, said Friday there was no indication of enemy fire and the cause of the crash was under investigation.

The Special Operations helicopter killed all those aboard when it went down Thursday evening 12 kilometers (seven miles) east of the air base.

The names of the victims were being withheld pending notification of relatives.

The helicopter that crashed is known as the MH-60, an adapted version of the Black Hawk which Army special operations forces use for long-range, low-level penetration of hostile territory at night.

King said the crash was not connected to the ongoing U.S. military operations in southeast Afghanistan, where troops backed by helicopters were scouring caves in the Adi Ghar mountain for about 80 rebel fighters.

King said the 8,000 U.S. soldiers based in Afghanistan would rebound from the latest loss. "The people who conduct flight operations are professionals, highly trained and understand there are dangers associated with their business,"


Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...