Helicopters search for aircraft
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Search and rescue helicopters scour an area of the Highlands for a missing light aircraft with one person on board.
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Weary searchers scouring Mount Hood for three missing climbers had no luck Saturday and were returning to their bases, authorities said. Air searches with Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane were to continue around the clock, authorities said The ground search is to resume early Sunday, weather permitting.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 10--Emergency management officials in Johnston County enlisted a state helicopter equipped with a heat-sensing capability to fly over a smoldering debris dump fire Friday and identify hot spots.
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Three years ago, a state-appointed panel said finding ways to quickly get military helicopters and planes airborne to battle raging wildfires should be a "high priority." Yet, last week, delays launching aircraft revealed a system still suffering from communication and planning shortfalls.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Airborne military patrols scoured inaccessible sections of Sumatra island yesterday and discovered that swaths of land were inundated and roads, villages, and bridges had vanished. After helicopter flyovers, rescuers estimated more than 80,000 deaths in the region and described the scene as catastrophic.
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Authorities in Nepal appealed to villagers on Monday for help in finding a helicopter chartered by conservation group WWF, nearly two days after it disappeared in bad weather with 24 people on board.
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The US military in Iraq says it is checking reports that a helicopter has gone down north of Baghdad.
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RENO, Nevada  - The Nevada Air National Guard dispatched a Blackhawk helicopter to a canyon on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a "credible" tip that missing millionaire adventurer Steven Fossett's plane may have crashed there.
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Frustrated by furious winds, mountainous seas and a mere five-hour window of December daylight, rescuers searched Thursday for six people lost in the Bering Sea after the Coast Guard helicopter that had plucked them from a crippled freighter crashed in the darkness.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The widow of a Canadian air force pilot killed in the crash of a Bell 412 helicopter two years ago fears more will die unless the tail rotor blades on the popular aircraft are more thoroughly inspected by civilian operators.
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Description: A Coast Guard helicopter goes down in the Bering Sea, leaving six missing near the Aleutian Islands. The helicopter was transferring crew members from a freighter that had run aground, spreading
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The U.S. military said Tuesday that it was searching for three civilian crew members and three military passengers who were aboard an aircraft that went missing over Afghanistan.
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Almost 100 Army troops searching an area in County Fermanagh are thought to be looking for weapons.
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Description: The Pakistani military&#39;s continuing search for al Qaeda militants along the border with Afghanistan. Pakistani warplanes and helicopter gunships attacked a suspected terrorist training camp, and
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The military said Friday it was investigating reports of a U.S. helicopter going down north of Baghdad.
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Helicopters flights are used to count endangered orang-utans in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo.
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A search and rescue team has reached the site of the crash, and an investigation is being conducted.