Video shows Colombian Army Black Hawk helicopter exploding after landing in a minefield

July 15, 2015 Aviation Safety / Air Crashes, Helicopters

David Cenciotti

Warning: Graphic video shows Black Hawk helicopter exploding.

On Jun. 22, a Colombian Army Black Hawk helicopter exploded in a rural area of Teorama municipality.

Out of the 15 soldiers on board the UH-60L chopper, four were killed and six wounded after the Black Hawk landed in a minefield reportedly laid by FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) group.

According to the information released by local media the helicopter belonged to the Army’s 33rd Mobile Brigade.

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

Jan Schmidt says:

July 16, 2015 at 7:17 AM

The FARC was founded in 1964. Since then over 220000 people died and more then 5 million people were uprooted. even with a multi-billion “black budget” from the usa using nsa and cia resources to murder the FARC leaders, the war in the jungle drags an. FARC still has between 8000 and 10000 fighters.

read more on covert war in colombia:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/

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