I remember it. Fallujah...my nephew refused that particular flight. Marines. It wasn’t 17, it was 30.
http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=16798
But what is more important and revealing about this article is it indicates that more is suspected in the numerous ‘copter crashes than just ‘sand.’ This article is just the tip of the iceberg. Google the crashes and you will start to see a pattern nicely obscured by the phrase, “nothing to see here.”