Any official report on cause of helicopter 'mishap'???

[spanone]

They said on my local news that it was caused by weather. Is this the official line or do they even know?

[Taxloss]

1. I heard

It was near the Jordanian border, at night, in a sandstorm. Sounds like difficult circumstances to me. Natural causes, I would say.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Initial reports were of a surface-to-air missile

a blog this AM had a link to google news with about 10 hits.

Hard to know thought.....

[Taxloss]

3. All I heard was night, sandstorm, difficult to say.

I know nothing.

[mopaul]

4. why....they wouldn't LIE to us would they?.....not these nice people...

all i know is there are an AWFUL lot of helicopter and humvee 'accidents' goin' around. i'm sure accidents and lousy luck happens, but they lie about the body count, the reason for being there, and every damn thing else

[zeemike]

5. It is unlikely that it was just weather.

If they had lost there engines because of a sand storm or other reasons they could auto rotate and make a fairly safe landing.
But when the whole crew is lost there must be some catastrophic loss of control

[MichiganVote]

6. Friendly fire?

[Oversea Visitor]

7. Try this link

www.psyopnews.com

[illflem]

8. ****

http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/01/27/Foreign/adead.html

BAGHDAD (Sapa-AFP) -- At least 31 US Marines were killed in a US transport helicopter crash near the western Iraqi city of Rutbah, according to military and media reports yesterday.

It is the highest number of US fatalities to result from a single incident since the US first occupied Iraq almost two years ago.

Earlier yesterday the US military in Baghdad confirmed the crash saying it happened overnight as the helicopter was transporting soldiers from the 1st Marine Division, headquartered in Fallujah.

Witnesses said the helicopter appeared to have been hit by a surface-to-air missile and exploded on hitting the ground.

A second helicopter also came under fire but was able to reach safety, the witnesses said.

[Disturbed]

9. There might be an offical report about it..

four months from now on the back page of some newspaper. It will be down the memory hole by then.