As a Senior Airman, Dobos was the gunner on a
Pave Hawk crew that was assigned to the
66th Rescue Squadron in October 2004. On 20 October 2004, her aircraft was on a mission to
medivac a local Afghani national who had been shot while working as a member of the Joint Election Monitoring Board overseeing Afghan elections. While in a hover over the LZ, the aircraft encountered severe brownout conditions at a higher altitude than is common. When the pilot attempted to leave the dust cloud, the aircraft struck the side of a nearby hill and slid up the hill before rolling down it 5-7 times, coming to rest on its right side approximately below the point of impact. The flight engineer, Jesse M. Samek of
Rogers, Arkansas, was killed in the crash. == References ==