Date:	Sunday 20 January 2002
Time:	22:00
Type:	Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion
Owner/operator:	US Marine Corps (USMC)
Registration:	163082
MSN:	65-576
Year of manufacture:	1986
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	60 km south of Bagram, Northern Afghanistan -   Afghanistan
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Bagram airfield
Destination airport:	Bagram airfield
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Two Marines were killed and five others were injured when a Marine CH-53E deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom crashed yesterday at approximately 10 p.m. EST in a remote region 60 kilometers south of Bagram in Northern Afghanistan. The injured have been evacuated to a medical facility within the Afghanistan theatre of operations.
The helicopter was destroyed to prevent it from falling into unfriendly hands.
The Marines and the aircraft were assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 (HMH-361), the "Flying Tigers" of Marine Aircraft Group 16.

Scramble 279
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=3215
http://www.joebaugher.com/navy_serials/thirdseries21.html
http://www.helis.com/database/cn/23275/
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/28/afghan.crash/index.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Sep-2012 02:12	krasatpi	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]