MORE ON THAT CHINOOK

The CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed and burned at 9 a.m. Iraq time shortly after departing the Army's Camp Ridgeway, formerly Iraq's Al Taqaddum air base, 35 miles west of Baghdad. At least 20 others in the helicopter were injured...

A second Chinook helicopter flying with the first was not hit. Those on the stricken aircraft came from a variety of units, an Army spokesman said, and included a number of reservists and possibly some civilians associated with the U.S.-led coalition. The Army's 82nd Airborne Division has troops deployed throughout western Iraq, and Camp Ridgeway is one of its operating bases.

A spokesman at Ft. Carson, Colo., said the Chinooks were carrying soldiers from Ft. Carson, Colo.; Ft. Sill, Okla.; Ft. Campbell, Ky.; and Ft. Hood, Texas.