( 2005 Iraq War ) Militants shot down Mercenaries Helicopter

On April 21, 2005, 20 km north of Baghdad, a Mi-8 helicopter was shot down by a RPG-7 flying on the order of Skylink Air and Logistics Support Inc., killing all 11 contractors on on board - three crew members (Bulgarian citizens Lubomir Kostov, Georgi Naidenov and Stoyan Anchev), six employees of the private military company "Blackwater USA" (US citizens) and two employees of the private military company "Global Risk Strategies Ltd." (citizens of Fiji). One of the survivors of the helicopter crash was shot dead by militants. 18+.