ack Hawk helicopters hovered over the target
building and the Rangers began descending by ropes as bullets whizzed past.
Then a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) hit one of the Black Hawks, number
61, disabling its rear motor. "We got a Black Hawk going down!" "We got a
Black Hawk going down!" came the frantic radio transmission. The Black
Hawk rotated upside down, then fell to Earth with a horrendous crash, north
of the target building. Both Somalis and U.S. troops raced to the site.
Minutes later, Black Hawk 64 went down in another RPG explosion, to the
south of the target building. Both of the Black Hawk crash sites er
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