rather. it was revealed last month that the general in charge of nuclear missiles had been removed after a series of drunken incidents in russia. there are new questions this morning about military safety in the skies after three crashes this week that killed eight american service members. after two chopper crashes, a military plane crash in afghanistan this morning. as abc s molly hunter reports. reporter: the latest incident in eastern afghanistan this morning involved an mc-12 reconnaissance plane. international allied sources confirmed the small beechcraft propeller plane, similar to this one that crashed, killing two american servicemen and one american civilian. that follows wednesday s helicopter crash off the coast of virginia beach. two servicemen died. two injured. and one is still missing. rescuers will continue to search for the missing sailor later today. on tuesday an air force plane went down off england s coast,
down to you, the consumer? they were sons, brothers, fathers, how 30 u.s. special ops troops are being honored and remembered after one of the deadliest chopper crashes in the afghan war. on a much lighter note for you, being bilingual, a super food for developing your child s brain? we have the answer coming up. we continue to follow that breaking news out of wall street. take a look at what is going on because it s been a down day from the very start. now 336 points in the red for the dow. really dropped after the s&p downgraded the credit ratings of fannie mae and freddie mac a little while ago. let me bring in cnbc scott cohen. for the average consumer, what does this mean? well, this is going to be maddening in uncertain times but it depends. it depends on whether the downgrades really lead to increased borrowing costs. not just for the federal government, which we ve been talking about sort of in an abstract over the weekend, but any of these like fannie mae and
this particular case, is we re getting reports that the crash occurred on insertion. there s five phases. insertion, infiltrations, action on the objective, and extraction. this occurred at the insertion phase. which goes to show sometimes it s not the mission itself, but getting there is the most dangerous part. talk about the millions of dollars that go into training these elite men who become s.e.a.l.s eventually. yet, you also, when i was talking to you yesterday, you said there s some concerns about the some of the safety or the ability of these helicopters to actually, you know, be as safe as they need to be. why does it seem that we talk about these chopper crashes on quite a regular basis, both in iraq and afghanistan? sure. well, kiran, like we were talking about yesterday in the office, some of these air frames are very old. in addition, these guys are flying all the time.