On a morning late in november of 2004, a CASA 212-200, a Spanish-built utility transport with two 900 hp Garrett turboprops, left Bagram Air Base near Kabul in Afghanistan on a mission to deliver a cargo of tracer mortar ammunition to another base, Farah, located near the western border with Iran, about 400 miles distant. The airplane was configured with nine seats, and six people were aboard: two pilots, a mechanic who sat in the cockpit jumpseat and three U.S. Army soldiers, one of whom boarded the flight at the last minute after having it flagged down as it taxied out. The weather was VMC.
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