130 has the capability of tightly flying above the terrain. It is designed to provide "infiltration, exfiltration and resupply of special operations forces and equipment in hostile or denied territory". U.S. ambassador to Albania, Marcie Ries, expressed gratitude to Albanian authorities' efforts to find the crew. "This is another example of very close cooperation between U.S. and Albania," she said. The aircraft had been assigned to the 352nd Special Operations Group based in Mildenhall, Britain, the U.S. military said. The plane crashed in the same area where a U.S. Apache assault helicopter crashed six years ago, killing two crew members, during the NATO aerial intervention against Yugoslavia, the Tirana daily Korrieri said on its Internet site. --SP 2215 Local Time 1915 GMT
