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Article: CRASH WON'T ALTER PLANS FOR APACHES' COMBAT ROLE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 6, 1999
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The U.S. Army won't disrupt its plans to send Apache helicopters into combat against Serb forces, despite a crash in Albania's mountains early yesterday that killed two American aviators and brought NATO's first fatalities in its campaign against Yugoslavia.
The crash, during nighttime training in rugged northeastern Albania, was the second in nine days involving one of the two-dozen heavily armed anti-tank Apaches deployed in Albania. They are preparing for combat missions against Yugoslav forces, accused of driving nearly 700,000 ethnic Albanians out of neighboring Kosovo province.
Training will proceed, and the Army will stick to its still-secret ...