![]() “When our nation enters into battle, it must be to win the battle, not the ‘hearts and minds’ of the Islamic jihadist enemy and the Muslim civilian population it uses as human shields.” “The families also want our military’s rules of engagement to be changed, as a testament to and in honor of their dead sons,” Mr. helicopter pilots to fire back at the Taliban fighters they believed brought down the Chinook. He said families also want changes to the military’s restrictive rules of engagement that made it more difficult for U.S. ![]() “There are many unanswered questions and the military’s explanations of the causes of the crash do not add up.” “The families of our fallen heroes, who I am proud to represent, need closure to this tragedy,” Mr. Klayman allowed The Washington Times to view the military’s investigative files turned over to family members two years ago. He said the Defense Department stonewalled his written requests, so Freedom Watch went to court last month and succeeded in forcing the government to turn over records.įor the first time, Mr. ![]() He wants a judge to order the military to turn over an array of documents under the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Pentagon, as well as the Air Force, Army and Navy. Larry Klayman, who runs the nonprofit watchdog group Freedom Watch, has filed suit in U.S. Issa, California Republican, is making inquiries after meeting with some families. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Rep. More than two years later, more answers may be forthcoming. Central Command, which overseas the war and conducted the probe, declined to answer the families’ questions and referred a reporter to Gen. Strange, a former union construction worker who deals blackjack in a Philadelphia casino.Ī spokesman for U.S. “I want people held accountable,” said Mr. Colt, who has since been promoted to major general, told commanders that his job was not to find fault and his report did not criticize any person or decision. Not all families believe the fact-finding investigation, conducted by Army Brig. “I want to know why the black box of the helicopter has not been found. servicemen, especially SEALs, were assembled on one aircraft,” he said. Sith Douangdara, whose 26-year-old son, John, was a Navy expeditionary specialist who handled warrior dog Bart, said he has lots of unanswered questions. So there was every reason in the world to use the MH that night.” “The MH, the new model, they’ve got radar that will pick up an incoming missile or incoming RPG. “When you want to fly them into a valley, when you’ve got hillsides on both sides of it with houses built into sides of the valley, that is an extremely dangerous mission,” Mr. PHOTOS: Families suspect SEAL Team 6 crash was inside job The souped-up choppers - the MH-47 and the MH-60 Black Hawk, which SEAL Team 6 rode the stealth version of to kill bin Laden - are flown by Night Stalker pilots skilled in fast, ground-hugging maneuvers to avoid detection. Now she was married to another man and had one son with him.He asks why the command sent his son into Tangi Valley toward a “hot landing zone” in a cargo airship instead of a special operations helicopter. The airline said in a statement that the plane contained 53 Nepalis, 5 Indians, 4 Russians, 2 Koreans, 1 Argentinean, and one each from Ireland, Australia, and France.įrom her first husband Dipak, Manju had one daughter who is studying in Canada. According to the airline, 68 passengers including 4 crew were on board the aircraft. In Sunday’s crash, the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 aircraft was piloted by Senior Captain Kamal KC and Manju was the co-pilot. Seventeen years ago, a 9N AEQ aircraft of Yeti Airlines was en route from Nepalgunj to Jumla via Surkhet, when it crashed killing six passengers and four crew members. She had one daughter from her late pilot husband. Manju had successfully landed in almost all the airports of Nepal. In order to become a pilot, one needs at least 100 hours of flying experience. She was supposed to be promoted to pilot after some more flights, according to the news report. According to the Kantipur national daily, after the death of her pilot husband, her father Govinda was planning to send her to India to study nursing but she refused and went to the US to do a pilot training course to fulfill the dream of her first husband. Seventeen years after the death of her husband, Manju also lost her life in a plane crash on Sunday. Her husband Dipak Pokharel died in 2006 in a plane crash in the Jumla district. She lost her pilot husband in the same manner in a 2006 plane crash. This tragic coincidence happened to Manju Khatiwada, 44, the co-pilot of the ill-fated Yeti Airlines plane, who died on Sunday when the plane crashed in Pokhara, Nepal.
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