OT now, but soon to become On Topic

Since mid day Tuesday, we've been getting reports about the helicopter down in Afghanistan. The various reports from the news outlets (foriegn and domestic) have indicated that the helicopter was alone, and that there was another chopper with it. That there were US troops on the ground at the crash site, and that there were not. That the helicopter was on a reinforcement insertion mission, and that it was not. That there were living persons on the ground at the site immediately after the crash, and that there were not. WOW! Somebody needs to get their act together.

The earliest press releases (from the pentagon) indicate that the chopper took an RPG. That says two things: There was communication from the helicopter before it went in, and that it was flying low and slow when it took the hit.

We should all hope, that either there were no survivors, or that any survivors are not currently guests of the Taliban.

I saw a story that said that two transport choppers and two gunships were trying to reinforce a reconnaissance team. One of the troop ships was taking small arms fire and was probably downed by an RPG. There has been no contact with the reconnaissance team for some time and their fate is unknown.