Ring Vortex Effect News Today

During a landing exercise, one of them pancaked to the ground and exploded into flames killing one marine and wounding all 21, injuring all 21 others a board the aircraft. some with serious wounds. what theyre looking at now is exactly what did cause the crash. in a previous crash, in fact youll remember in the raid that took down bin laden, there was a helicopter that crashed in that compound. theyre look at the potential that it was that same condition. the same phenomenon called a ring vortex...

Same time, thats something investigators are all going to look at. but again this ring vortex effect where the helicopter in this case the osprey, actually pushes itself down faster into the ground the harder they stand on the throttle is suspected as a possible cause. >> jim miklaszewski, good to see you, thank you. >> okay. i want to bring in steve clemens, msnbc contributor and washington editor at large for "the atlantic." good to see you, i want to talk to you specifically about iraq, rep...