Five Choppers Down

Published February 7, 2007 7:09pm ET



Over the last 18 days, five American helicopters have gone down in the areas in and around Baghdad. What first appeared to be an unfortunate coincidence, has now started to fuel speculation of a new dimension to the insurgency in Iraq. On January 30, Defense Tech asked a former Kiowa Warrior pilot who had served in Iraq, identified only as “ME”, for his thoughts on the string of crashes:

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