Grounded Chinooks close to flying again

The US Army is hoping to return about half its grounded fleet of 466 Boeing CH-47D/MH-47E Chinooks to flight status after being inspected for potentially fatal cracked transmission gears first discovered on an RAF machine during a depot-level overhaul.

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