Civil War Massacres Aftermath On January 2, 1991, a U.S. Army helicopter carrying three American soldiers was shot down by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) nearby the village of Lolotique, San Miguel Department, El Salvador.
The two surviving soldiers were summarily executed by FMLN forces in one of the most infamous incidents during El Salvador's civil war.
[3] FMLN militants stole all the equipment from the helicopter[5] and ordered locals to relocate the officers as the aircraft would be set on fire.
A farmer told that the United Press International that he had left for an hour to get water for the survivors but they were already dead by time he came back.
[2] Human Rights Watch said that of all FMLN war crimes during the conflicts, "perhaps none so infamous as the January 2 execution of two injured U.S. servicemen after their helicopter was shot down over eastern El Salvador.