US MILITARY HELICOPTER FLIES LOW NEAR BAGRAM AIRPORT, 2002-03-04 (photo)

An American military CH-46 Chinook helicopter flies in low over Afghan rooftops as it approaches Bagram airport north of Jabul March 4, 2002. A U.S. military helicopter was downed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday and a number of troops killed in the crash as Afghan and Western forces pressed their biggest attack of the war against al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, a U.S. official said. The official, who asked not to be identified, said the U.S. Central Command was preparing to release details of additional military fatalities beyond the one U.S. soldier killed when the fierce fighting began in snow-covered mountains near Gardez on Friday night. REUTERS/Jim Hollander JWH/CLH/