A Blackhawk helicopter crash near Tikrit, Iraq, has killed a soldier from Indian Creek, a small town near Monroe City in northeast Missouri. Army Captain Ben Smith was the pilot. The Army says a rocket-propelled grenade might have caused the crash. It is urling out a surface-to-air missile. Smith is one of six soldiers killed in the crash. His wife is also a Blackhawk pilot in Iraq.
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