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  Airmen help save lives following UH-60 crash at Tallilby Master Sgt. Don Perrien 407th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs 9/27/2004 - TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN)  -- Just after 9:20 p.m. Sept. 21, two Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters took off from the flightline here. Two minutes later, something went horribly wrong with one of them. “The first thing I heard was a loud, dull thud, kind of like a fist hitting a wooden wall,” said Senior Airman John Byrum, a firefighter assigned to the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron. “I looked out toward the flightline, and I saw the helicopter bounce...