A medical transport helicopter crashed Monday in Mississippi, while carrying two hospital workers and a pilot, officials said. Mar 11 Helicopter crashes onto icy Idaho reservoir, killing 1 and injuring 1 First responders traveled to the site using snowmobiles and found two people inside the helicopte...
Pilot and repair personnel were always short due to their extensive and lengthy training periods. Finally, helicopters were required for convoy and base camp protection needed to support helicopter operations! Col. David Hackworth wrote that his most successful operations occurred when he surprised the...
The tragic recording also revealed that another pilot had personally seen the crash confirmed the incident with an air traffic controller, CNN reported. The pilot who witnessed the devastating collision said: ‘Yeah, we were on short final and we saw flares from the...
In audio from the air traffic control tower around the time of the crash, a controller is heard asking the helicopter: "PAT25 do you have the CRJ in sight", in reference to the passenger aircraft. "Tower, did you see that?" another pilot is heard saying seconds after the c...
The helicopter’s data, contained in a single black box, was now at the NTSB headquarters, Inman said. Investigators have not yet attempted to open it, but it appears to be undamaged. Investigators are examining the actions of the military pilot as well as air traffic control, after the ...
In a statement released by the Army,her family saidshe was a distinguished military graduate in ROTC at the University of North Carolina, and was in the top 20% of cadets nationwide. They said she had more than 450 hours of flight time, and earned “certification as a ...
“I handle any physical asset creation whether it be the actual helicopters, pilots, wreckage and debris, or any other trickery that needs to be pulled off. Chuck handles the backend and the overall logistics of the mod, and is effectively the pilot!” ...
The crew included an instructor pilot and pilot in command were experienced to the point where either crew member “could manage that helicopter by themselves.” Bodies of 3 Army soldiers recovered The bodies of all three soldiers who were on board the Army helicop...
For Serhiy, the Ukrainian pilot, the equipment can’t arrive soon enough. Speaking to CNN at the brigade’s operation base, he says, “Of course we need newer helicopters because we have aircraft from the Soviet era. We are squeezing everything possible and impossible out of them. “It ...
Everly and Alydia were both very artistic and talented, young skaters who were passionate about skating. “These were the kids that would’ve represented the USA,” Longerbeam said. Female Black Hawk pilot ‘excelled in everything’ Rebecca Lobach ...