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When Durant's Super Six Four got hit he thought all most nothing of it. The big Black Hawk was built for battle. The bird had been hit in the tail, right where the oil for the tail rotor was stored. Mike Goffeena saw the whole thing go down. Durant found that he could still fly the helicopter and set off toward the Task Force base. For about a mile Goffeena trailed behind him just to make sure that Super Six Four could make the distance back to base. Satisfied, Goffeena started to turn around and head back. Just as that happened, however, there was a large explosion on the tail boom. The tail rotor had disintegrated. Super Six Four began an uncontrollable spin down to the earth. Once word got out the Durant Six Four had gone down the three hummvees that carried Blackburn to base set out for the crash.

Goffeena was now circling above his crashed friend. He had three Delta snipers in the back of his chopper. As the Somalian militia made their way towards the crash, the Delta snipers said they would be more effective fighting from the ground and requested they be set down. This request was denied on the basis that no one knew if there were any survivors. It was just then that Goffeena saw his friends, Mike Durant and Ray Frank, moving on the ground and beginning to return fire with their sub-machine guns.

During this all the convoy was still lost. An air force controller decided to take things into his own hands. He bypassed the C2 helicopter and started talking to the Orion spy plane above them. No one in the convoy knew a second bird had gone down but, the spy plane had. The radio operators on the Orion saw that the situation at the second site was dire and started giving directions to the convoy to head there. Upon, realizing this the convoy demanded directions to the first site.