nine soldiers in the worst helicopter crash in Afghanistan, the coalition had been killed in four years the Americans, the Pentagon has no information on why the plane was confirmed by the naval command.
NATO said there were no reports of hostile fire in a rugged area in the Daychopan district of Zabul province, where the accident occurred on Tuesday. But the Taliban, Qari Yousef Ahmadi told The Associated Press by telephone that the rebels shot down a helicopter.
The Taliban frequently exaggerate their claims and then, sometimes accidents.
U. S. Department of Defense released the names of the soldiers on Wednesday night, saying that four of the Special Forces of the Navy - three Navy SEALs - and the other soldiers.
Fort Campbell, Representative Rick Rzepka said five soldiers of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade assigned.
Tuesday was the worst accident since May 2006, when the Chinook helicopter crashed while attempting to land at night, a small peak in the eastern province of Kunar, killing 10 American soldiers.
The aircraft are detailed in Afghanistan, NATO and Afghan government forces to transport troops and materials, and an area of mountain roads and very few and primitive.
The lack of shoulder rockets and other weapons of defense, based mainly on Taliban machine guns and grenade launchers, fire, driven by the aircraft during takeoff and landing.
The majority of accidents in rural helicopter crash caused by maintenance problems or factors such as dust.
Last Wednesday, the commander of NATO has confirmed the detention of Taliban Margarita, the site of an attack of the grand coalition in February. Governor, assisted delivery of local militants, was arrested during the operation of Afghan and coalition forces in Helmand province on Tuesday.
According to a survey of residents at the scene, the captured soldiers, the commander and his two employees. The troops found 45 pounds (20 pounds) of opium liquid - that is, the rubber has met the plant to dry - which is often sold to finance the insurgency.
Also Wednesday, NATO said militants attacked Afghan army and NATO outpost in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, 25 to 30 militants were killed during the battle sequences.
Troops in combat outpost in Spera district of Khost province, the mortar fire late Sunday, NATO said in a statement. Initial reports had no civilian casualties, he said.
General Time Mohmmad Hory Gil, a senior Afghan army commander in the province, said 29 insurgents were killed. There were no casualties among Afghan and NATO forces, he said.
Gil Hory said the attack came from the Pakistani side of the border.
Meanwhile, a NATO member was killed during an operation on Wednesday, a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan.
NATO did not elaborate, but in Copenhagen the Danish army said the bomb killed a Danish soldier and wounded another. Two members of the Royal Guard of life were on foot patrol in Helmand province when a bomb he said.
Denmark has more than 700 soldiers serving in NATO forces. Most are based in Helmand province.