article_snippet: The UH-60 Black Hawk crashed in the Gulf of Mexico close to Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday night.
article_snippet: Above, a door or window from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter .
article_snippet: Above, a file photo of a UH-60 Black Hawk - not the one that crashed .
article_snippet: The massive Black Hawk has been the workhorse of the U.S. Army since 1979.
article_snippet: The massive Black Hawk are primarily used to ferry troops to and from the battlefields, and support aircraft, but adapted models carry out medical evacuations with state-of-the-art equipment, search-and-rescue, armed escort and warfare missions.
article_snippet: Black Hawks were a central part of the U.S. military attack on Somalia capital, Mogadishu in 1993. 
article_snippet: Black Hawks were also used in military operations in the Balkan region and Haiti in the 1990s; and supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.