 Operation Falcon Summit was launched on December 15, 2006 when British, Canadian, Danish, and Estonian troops began massing in the Panjwayi district the morning after NATO airstrikes hit a Taliban command post.The operation was aimed at keeping up the momentum that was gathered during Operation Medusa.The first operation-related casualty was a Canadian soldier who, while en route to a meeting with tribal elders to discuss reconstruction that would be happening during and after the operation, stepped on a landmine.