Byline: THOMAS WAGNER Associated Press
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Engine failure -- not enemy fire -- may have brought down a U.S. transport helicopter in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said Monday, as soldiers at the scene searched the burned wreckage of the crash that killed five U.S. serviceman.
The MH-53 transport helicopter, which can carry up to 55 people, crashed Sunday just after leaving Bagram Air Base to support a special military operation by the U.S.-led coalition in northeastern Afghanistan. Eight soldiers also were wounded.
U.S. military officials at Bagram and Central Command in Tampa, Fla., had been investigating the cause -- including …
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