MD-530 Helicopter Crashes In Kandahar During Training
MD-530 helicopter crashes in Kandahar during training of Taliban pilots.
A military helicopter fitted with surveillance cameras and machine guns, and MD-530, has crashed in a training flight in the Taliban’s southern province of Kandahar. The Taliban have confirmed this news.
A Defense Ministry spokesman Inayatullah Khwarizmi said on Wednesday that the crash was caused by technical problems and that two pilots were injured, media reported.
The helicopter crashed and was destroyed. The pilots were injured in the accident but no one was killed.
He said that the condition of one pilot is stable, the condition of the other pilot is critical. Earlier, a video of the accident was going viral on social media.
As reported by Afgan media, some social media users said that the helicopter was evacuating people trapped in floods in Maiwan district of Kandahar.
An MD-530 helicopter costs around $1 million.
Let us tell you that the cost of an MD-530 helicopter is about one million dollars.
That’s why military officials have now called on the Islamic emirate to hire former pilots and maintenance people to operate the aircraft.
If inexperienced people keep operating military equipment, everything will be destroyed: Military analyst
Sadiq Shinwari, a military analyst, said in the incident that the equipment would be destroyed if military equipment continued to be used by inexperienced people.
American weapons are being sold openly in stores.
As The New York Times reports, American weapons – which the Taliban confiscated after the withdrawal of US troops – are being sold openly in stores by Afghan gun dealers.
The report states that American training and Equipment costing more than US$83 billion was originally provided to Afghan security forces during the two decades of war under the aid program.
The Taliban had amassed a large number of weapons after American troops left Afghanistan.
Pentagon officials previously reported that the advanced weapons had been disabled before the troops left, but according to reports, there were still thousands of weapons available to the Taliban.
