User:Itsmatt1212/2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown

For years after the downing of Extortion 17, there were many theories about a possible government cover-up. The official statement from US Central Command states that a Taliban fighter scored a lucky shot with a rocket propelled grenade on the CH-47 Chinook helicopter. It was reported that the Taliban fighters had no information of the helicopter's flight path and that they had been in the right place at the right time. A Department of Defense official that there was no leaks from the Afghans. Doubts about this story were raised by families and other concerned citizens due to the fact that the same US Navy SEAL team aboard Extortion 17 had carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden three months earlier. The theories suggest that there had been leaked information from Afghan forces to the Taliban about the mission, allowing the Taliban to plan and carry out the strike against Extortion 17.