When an American CH-47 Chinook crash-landed in hostile Afghan terrain, the U.S. military faced a massive problem: the downed 10-ton machine was far too heavy for any standard allied aircraft to recover at high altitude.

Rather than destroying the asset, coalition forces contracted a Russian-built Mil Mi-26 to lift it back to safety.
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