WASHINGTON - A US helicopter that crashed in Iraq at the weekend, killing 12 US troops, may have been shot down with a shoulder-fired missile, a senior US defense official said Monday.
"Some reporting in operational channels indictates that it may have been shot down. It may have been a shoulder-fired missile," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Pentagon spokesmen said a preliminary investigation was still underway and had not yet determined what caused the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to crash on Saturday northeast of Baghdad, killing all aboard.
01/22/2007 15:48 GMT