Helicopter recovery fail - CH-53e crew loses CH-47 Chinook

This is a failed attempt to recover a CH-47 Chinook using another helicopter in Afghanistan. See below yt comment for what went wrong and why the stripped Chinook doesn't look very helicoptery. Top yt comment by AmeanAF - Hey dad, look what I found in the backyard.

2nd top comment, explaining it a bit, by TheMitxdevildog:

The CH-53e is lifting the Chinook trying to recover the aircraft when it went down. The reason there is nothing on the Chinook is to lighten the load. At 1:42 the load starts to swing uncontrollably, so the crew decides to drop the it rather than risk taking the 53 down and the crew with it.

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