Dramatic helicopter rescue of two pilots described
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WASHINGTON -- "We're taking fire!" Chief Warrant Officer 2 Steven Cianfrini, 27, yelled to his co pilot as he looked out the helicopter door and saw tracer rounds flying his way.
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David Willis flies over the area where rescue teams are searching for missing aviator Steve Fossett.
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The burned wreckage of a missing tour helicopter was spotted Saturday in a remote mountainous area of Kauai, but rescuers were unable to reach the area before dark to learn if the pilot and his four passengers survived.
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A Royal navy helicopter rescues 18 people trapped by a landslide north of Lochearnhead in Scotland.
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Helicopters rescued dozens of people Saturday following heavy rains and floods in England that also forced more than 2,000 motorists, homeowners and train passengers to spend the night in shelters.
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ANCHORAGE, Dec. 10 -- High winds gusting across the Bering Sea hampered efforts Friday to stem an oil spill from a broken freighter, and there was still no sign of six crew members who were lost when a rescue helicopter crashed in the turbulent waters.
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A government flight that linked Peru's isolated jungle communities crashed in a storm, officials said, and at least five survivors among the 20 people on board were rescued Friday after helicopters overhead spotted a fire they had set
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Ministry of Defence confirms a helicopter pilot has been seriously injured in an attack in Iraq.
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In 'Marius' project, helicopters are used to set up temporary SMS networks in the case of a crisis.
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More than 40 aid workers were dramatically rescued by helicopter yesterday as violence, including aerial bombardments of a town, flared across Sudan&#39;s crisis-plagued Darfur region.
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Two Britons have been hailed as heros for saving passengers from a plane which crashed in the Thai resort of Phuket by smashing their way out of aircraft, reports said Tuesday.
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A US Coast Guard helicopter with 10 people aboard crashed into the Bering Sea Wednesday while carrying out a rescue operation, the Coast Guard said.
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Doug Schneider, 47, left, and Britt &quot;Mac&quot; Jefferson, 57, center, are hoisted into a rescue helicopter by Staff Sgt. James Bryson of the Mather Air Force Base Army National Guard near Yosmite National Park, Calif.
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Rescue helicopters braved wild weather to airlift 21 crew members from a stricken freighter as pounding seas threatened to beach others on Australia&#39;s east coast Friday.
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Either Paul or Kulbir Dhaliwal made the 911 call from outside a zoo cafe on Dec. 25, asking that a helicopter be brought in to rescue his brother, according to a recording of the call released Tuesday
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Crewmembers of a Coast Guard helicopter based in Kodiak received an emotional welcome last night when they returned home after their HH-60 crashed during a dangerous rescue operation Wednesday night.
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A helicopter used as an air ambulance crashed into a bay early Wednesday and two bodies were recovered, authorities said. No patients were on board the Eurocopter BO-105 when