RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - The Nevada National Guard is honoring the memory of five people who were killed in the worst helicopter crash in Nevada Army Aviation history.

Today, Sept. 25, is the 20th anniversary of the crash.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 John Flynn and Sgt. Patrick Stewart died on Sept. 25, 2005, when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter, Mustang 22, was shot down by an RPG while flying over Afghanistan.

Five people in total, Warrant Officer Adrian Stump and Sgt. Tane Baum, both with the Oregon National Guard, and Sgt. Kenneth Ross, of Arizona, active-duty U.S. Army, were also killed in the crash.

Flynn and Stewart were the second and third Nevada Guard Soldiers to die while fighting in the War on Terror. The first was Spc. Anthony Cometa, who was killed three months prior in a rollover

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