UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters Crash Iraq

Fourteen U.S. soldiers died Wednesday when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said. The dead were all members of the Army's Task Force Lightning and included four Black Hawk crew members and 10 passengers. The helicopter crash was apparently not the result of an attack. The crash occurred near Kirkuk. Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were on a night operation when one of the aircraft crashed. Initial indications are that the aircraft experienced a mechanical malfunction. There were no indications of hostile fire.