US Army Grounds Its Entire Fleet of Chinook Helicopters Over Risk of Engine Fires Written 31 August 2022

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US Army Grounds Its Entire Fleet of Chinook Helicopters Over Risk of Engine Fires

U.S.Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter. |  Credit: SPC Glenn Anderson, Wikipedia; Public Domain

Bloomberg reports that Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said in a statement that the service has “grounded its entire fleet of some 400 CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters after engine fires broke out on a few of them.”
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