Yeah, I thought that Apache went down because of mechanical difficulties. It looked fully intact in the footage on television. I heard that the recent Black Hawk crash was not brought down by hostile fire either. It's hard to keep track when news comes out so quickly from embedded reporters.
If those dancing babbling goofballs would have been close enough to shoot down an Apache Longbow with rifle fire, they'd have captured or killed the pilots. The CWOs would have been filmed with the chopper. The pilots were captured sometime later.
Farmers don't have AK-47s in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. He's not a big 2nd Amendment guy. That landscape the Apache went down in didn't look like primo farming area, either.