Seahawk helicopter crash

A U.S. Seahawk helicopter on a &to= english.pravda.ru/region/2001/05/25/5937.html ' target=_blank>relief operation crashed in a rice paddy near Banda Aceh's airport, injuring all 10 aboard and causing the military to briefly suspend flights on Monday. Strong aftershocks and security concerns provided more challenges for aid workers two weeks after the disaster hit. Capt. Kendall L. Card, the commander of the &to= english.pravda.ru/columnists/2002/10/01/37526.html ' target=_blank>USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which is stationed off the coast of Sumatra island, said over the ship's loudspeakers that six of the servicemen aboard the aircraft had been hurt seriously and four had minor injuries. The worst injury was a dislocated pelvis, he said. Lt. Cmdr. John M. Daniels blamed the crash, which happened just after 7:30 a.m. local time, on a "possible mechanical failure" and said it was being investigated. Fifteen Seahawk helicopters from the Lincoln group have been flying up to nine hours a day on aid missions. Normally they fly a maximum of three to four hours a day. The SH60 helicopter crashed in a rice paddy about 500 yards from the airport in Banda Aceh, the main city on Indonesia's tsunami-battered Sumatra island, as it was trying to land, informs ABC News. According to Reuters, U.S. helicopter aid flights in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province have been suspended after a military helicopter crashed on Monday, a U.S. navy officer told reporters. No one was killed in the Monday morning crash of one of the ship-based Seahawk helicopters involved in the aid effort. "Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations in the form of helicopter deliveries of essential supplies has temporarily and indefinitely been suspended," said Lieutenant-Commander John Bernard, based on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier but speaking at the crash site near &to= english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/385/14779_ADRA.html ' target=_blank>Banda Aceh airport. The provincial capital's airport is a key hub for aid operations in the province, which suffered most of Indonesia's more than 104,000 dead and more than 600,000 homeless from the Dec. 26 quake and tsunami. The U.S. helicopter flights have been the backbone of the aid flow to Aceh's devastated west coast

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