Chinook helicopter shootdown – June 2005
Boeing CH-47 Chinook · Shootdown
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
- Aircraft type
- Boeing CH-47
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
On 28 June 2005, Taliban fighters shot down one of two military Chinook helicopters, which was carrying about 17 military personnel of the rapid support forces, the "Quick Reaction Force". After Taliban fighters clashed with the forces of Operation Red Wings, and after fighting that lasted about 50 minutes, the operation's commander, First Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, made a call to Jalalabad base requesting the rapid support forces because of their clash with the Taliban forces led by Ahmad Shah Dara. Twenty minutes after the call, two military Chinook aircraft arrived, each carrying 17 military personnel. The lead Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter was carrying 17 military personnel including the crew, among them the commander of Operation Red Wings, Lieutenant Erik S. Kristensen. When the helicopter arrived at the scene, Taliban fighters fired RPG-7 rounds at the helicopter, causing it to explode and crash, and the other helicopter withdrew to Jalalabad base. The Taliban movement claimed responsibility for destroying and downing the helicopter.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Arabic Wikipedia article “إسقاط مروحية شينوك - يونيو 2005” (revision 76105739, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Arabic Wikipedia article: إسقاط مروحية شينوك - يونيو 2005
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 76105739 · 2026-08-04 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q131589085
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ar Wikipedia article "إسقاط مروحية شينوك - يونيو 2005" (page 9621190, revision 76105739), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator is an armed force according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Arabic Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.