My question is what was the aircrew doing for 40 min....they should have been the ones doin the destruct.. From what I have read .. it was the SEAL team that pitched the thermite into the chopper on their way out ....
They said it hard landed, they were probably trying to see if is was flyable, until they ran out of time. The thermite was an anti missile flare, saw a plane bunt to the ground with one of those things dropped and it went off.
My question is what was the aircrew doing for 40 min....they should have been the ones doin the destruct.. From what I have read .. it was the SEAL team that pitched the thermite into the chopper on their way out ....
With military training base approx. a mile away they probably they were trying to avoid “waking up the natives”.