SULAIMANI (ESTA) — A U.S.-led coalition military helicopter crashed while attempting an emergency landing during a training mission in northern Iraq on Thursday, the coalition said in a statement, adding there were no casualties.
The helicopter crashed in Makhmour region, about 60 km (40 miles) southwest of the Kurdish capital of Erbil, Iraqi security sources said earlier.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led international coalition said the helicopter experienced “an in-flight mishap”, while conducting a routine training mission near Erbil on Thursday.
There were no coalition casualties, nor damage to coalition or civilian infrastructure, said the spokesman, adding that the coalition helicopter was damaged.
