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Press Release | Sept. 29, 2017

Coalition service members injured in hard landing

CJTFOIR

September 29, 2017

Release # 20170929-04

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  

SOUTHWEST ASIA – Two U.S. service members were injured after a Coalition aircraft executed a hard landing early morning Sept. 29 in the Middle East.

 

The two were evaluated for non-life threatening injuries and quickly transported to a medical treatment facility, where they were seen and released.

 

The other passengers and crew on the aircraft were uninjured, and no other casualties were reported on the ground.

 

The cause of the incident is being investigated by the Coalition.

 

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