A Kansas couple celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary were among five people who died in the crash of a tour helicopter in a remote canyon outside Las Vegas.
Delwin and Tamara Chapman were in Las Vegas to renew their wedding vows after 25 years of marriage when a luxury helicopter tour of the twinkling Las Vegas Strip and the iconic Hoover Dam.
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A helicopter that was using cables to install a seven-story Christmas tree in central Auckland, New Zealand, crashed down to the ground. The pilot, Greg Gribble, escaped virtually unharmed with only minor injuries, while no one else was hurt, despite the fact that workers were very close by under the helicopter when the incident occurred.
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Five bodies of militaries killed in a military helicopter crashed in Kaeng Krachan National Park, but authorities were unable to move the charred bodies out of the crash site 500 metres from Thai-Myanmar border line.
Their helicopter crashed in foul weather during a mission to airlift troops on a patrol mission to combat the forest encroachment and illegal logging in the national park.
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The Marine Corps’ newest attack helicopter, the AH-1Z Cobra, achieved Initial Operating Capability ahead of schedule in February.
As part of the H-1 Upgrades Program, the AH-1Z replaces the currently fielded AH-1W. The AH-1Z will serve a primary role in assault support, offensive air support and air reconnaissance. Cobras will play a supporting role in anti-air warfare, electronic warfare, and control of aircraft and missiles.
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A daring nighttime helicopter rescue by the NYPD in ferocious winds and bitter cold early Sunday saved a pair of West Point cadets stranded on a mountaintop about 60 miles north of Manhattan.
The pilot, Officer Steve Browning, 52, of Shirley, described in an interview how he struggled against winds gusting to 32 mph as his craft, a Bell 412 air/sea rescue helicopter, hovered atop Storm King Mountain just after 2 a.m. The five-member rescue team saved the unidentified cadets with the help of infrared and night-vision equipment.
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Russian news agencies say the Defense Ministry has grounded its fleet of Mi-28 attack helicopters following a crash in the south of the country that killed the pilot.
The agencies said that the military helicopter crashed in daylight Tuesday attempting an emergency landing after engine failure in the province of Stavropol. A co-pilot was injured, the reports said.
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I have examined and test flown this newly developed AK 1-3 helicopter in Poltava Ukraine. Would like to compare notes with any one else who has also flown it. I rate the engineering design and build quality as outstanding. There are no castings used in its manufacture, but only CNC machined parts, including the main rotor gearbox casing. There is copious use of Kevlar for all blades and cabin and also plenty of Titanium for weight savings. It would be an injustice to comapre this helicopter to existing crop of kit-helicopters. The helicopter is powered by a 165 hp fuel injected EJ 25 Subaru. I would rate this craft between a R22 Beta II and the Schweitzer 269 C in terms of its weight lifting capacity, performance and cabin size.
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Senator Charles Schumer promise to try and save the Presidential Helicopter Program. Last week, the Lockheed Martin Owego stop work on the Presidential Helicopter program.
The order affects Phase 1 and Phase 2. Schumer’s proposing to include Phase 1 in the House and Senate budgets.
“We haven’t gotten any commitments, but we are getting an understanding that cutting it completely makes no sense from a fiscal point of view,” said Schumer.
5 helicopters in Phase 1 are already built. Schumer says safer helicopters are needed because the President’s current one is 30 years old.
The family of a flight nurse killed with two other people when a medical helicopter crashed last summer near Indianapolis. The helicopter’s main rotor blade either contacted unmarked power lines or “spontaneously separated without contact,” causing the deadly crash.
Attorneys hired by National Bank of Indianapolis filed the lawsuit in Marion Superior Court last week on behalf of Pearson’s two children, Gabrielle, 8, and Garrett, 10.
“These helicopter crashes have real human life consequences,” said Gary Robb, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney representing the plaintiffs. “I’m going to make sure these children do not have any kind of financial hardship over the death of their mother.”
The bodies of all five victims of a Dec. 11 helicopter crash off Sabine Pass have been recovered.
The helicopter was bound for a Gulf of Mexico oil platform.
Jefferson County Justice of the Peace identified three victims, whose bodies were recovered the day of the accident, as: the pilot, 43-year-old Joseph Laugelle Jr. of Quincy, Mass.; 23-year-old James Cody Smalts of Huntsville; and 51-year-old John Larry Conn of Katy.
The body of 26-year-old Jacob Matt of Jennings, La., was discovered Dec. 15 by volunteers patrolling a beach at the McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge.
