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A report on the April 3, 2018 crash that killed four Marines outside El Centro blames the crash on a defective part, which broke down in the helicopter’s hydraulic fluid. “To the families of these brave men, our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to you at this most difficult of times.”Chappell, Bill. "Today in History" sidebar)
Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company But if the community agrees with you this will get flagged and closed. However, the Daily Caller found no record of 11 Marines dying in the week leading up to the post nor the week following it. Claim: In January 2020 30 Marines and one sailor died in a helicopter crash, but the news only reported Kobe Bryant's death. The description in the Fox44 excerpt (which is missing too much context to see whether the year was given as 2005) exactly matches the events from 2005. An MH-60S helicopter from the ‘Golden Falcons’ of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 12 launches from the flight deck of U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) on Jan 21, 2020. Thirty Marines were just killed in a helicopter crash. While the headline for News-Gazette in the screenshot below refers to a “day in history” piece, for example, the headlines from KWKT and KTUU presented the incident as a recent development.
Moreover, it seems that some news publications published recent stories that didn’t clearly state that the military helicopter crash occurred 15 years ago.
Something being widespread on social media is considered notable on this site. Their AH-1Z Viper helicopter went down near the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma on Saturday around 20:45 local time (05:45 GMT Sunday). There is no such coverage in 2020. Today’s highlights.
A review of Pentagon press releases didn’t turn up any instances of Marine deaths in the past two months. Social media and some news websites are reporting that there was a helicopter crash in Iraq that killed 30 U.S. Marines over the weekend of 24-27 January 2020. Postal Service workers nationwide reported backlogs of letters and packages in summer 2020. You would need enough people having a special-in-some-way belief about this to make it notable, if it's the same horde of gullible people having the same knee-jerk reaction they have to every other post, it's not special and not notable.It doesn't matter if the majority don't believe it, it matters that some do. That incident actually took place in 2005, in Iraq.Readers may have noticed that this news release was published on Jan. 26, 2005. Social media posting old news without the date, and then people repeating it as if it were new is not notable.If enough people believe it, then it's notable. There are 340 days left in the year. Fifteen years later, this story recirculated on social media in the wake of another fatal helicopter crash.Thirty Marines and one Sailor from the 1st Marine Division and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing of the I Marine Expeditionary Force died Jan. 26 when their CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed near Ar Rutbah in the Al Anbar Province while conducting security and stabilization operations.All Marines, Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen of the I Marine Expeditionary Force mourn the tragic loss of our brothers in arms.A recovery team is at the crash site, and the cause of the crash is currently under investigation.The names of the deceased are being withheld pending next of kin notification.“While we mourn the loss of these heroes, we will honor their sacrifice by continuing our mission to bring democracy to the people of Iraq,” said Marine Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commanding general, I Marine Expeditionary Force.
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The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.
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KWKT and KTUU have since deleted their stories, and we were unable to find any archived versions of these pages. As the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant happened on the 15th anniversary of the crash that killed 30 Marines, it’s easy to see how some people may have misread this date. @BenVoigt: Twitter was created in 2006, so they would not look valid if dated 2005!And from what we have of the Fox44 page, it's impossible to tell if the 2020 date was even for the portion talking about the helicopter crash, or some other portion of the same page (e.g. The Military Times’ “Honor the Fallen” project doesn’t mention any either. NAVY: 30 Marines, 1 Sailor die in helicopter crash in Iraq 1/27/2020. Help preserve this vital resource.