Members of Army's 101st Airborne injured in helicopter landing in eastern Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - An Army helicopter made a hard landing in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, and soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were injured, a senior defense official said. <br> <br> Initial reports from the scene, near the town of Khost, indicated no one was killed, the official said. <br> <br> The CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter was carrying members of the 101st Airborne to a U.S. Marine Corps encampment near Khost, the official said. The 101st soldiers are replacing the Marines, who have been using the outpost in their search for al-Qaida and Taliban fighters. <br> <br> Thirty to 35 soldiers typically would be aboard in such a circumstance, he said. <br> <br> The injured soldiers were taken to a medical facility at Baghram airport north of Kabul, the Afghan capital. <br> <br> It was the latest in a series of U.S. military aircraft accidents in and around Afghanistan. The most deadly was the crash of a Marine Corps KC-130 refueling aircraft in Pakistan on Jan. 9 in which seven Marines were killed. On Jan. 20, a CH-53E Super Stallion crashed south of Baghram, killing two of the seven Marines aboard. <br> <br> <br> <br>

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