There isn’t much information available yet but here is what I know. One person has been killed when a helicopter crashed while doing work on the Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line in Tucker County, West Virginia. The accident happened around 10:30 a.m. today and three other people were injured. All three were flown to a hospital without [...]
An AS350 with four people on board went missing Thursday in the vast fields of ice in Antarctica. Today, an Orion AP3 airplane spotted what they believe to be the wreckage located about 100km from the Dumont d’Urville base. There were no signs that anybody survived the crash with a debris field 150 meters long. [...]
Four people were injured near the same location of a fatal crash this past weekend in Northern Ireland. The police air crew apparently flipped over while taking off, injuring the pilot, photographer, observer and an emergency team officer. They had been taking part in operations related to the fatal crash including the mapping of the [...]
I come across so many stories of people shining lasers at helicopters I don’t even bother wasting time to write about each one. This time though, they appear to have dropped the hammer on 19-year-old* Nathan Ramon Wells. The courts handed down a 15 month sentence today to be served in federal prison for an [...]
Around 4 p.m. Saturday a pilot and his two passengers were killed when their Agusta helicopter crashed in Northern Ireland. The pair were returning from a hunting trip and were headed back to England when unknown circumstances led to the accident. One of the passengers is reportedly a good friend of Prince Charles. Emergency services [...]
The FBI is investigating a shooting incident last week involving a hunter firing on a helicopter. From what I gather, a Vietnam veteran was piloting a helicopter over a controlled burn north of Clarkia when he was shot at four times by a high powered rifle. The pilot, Earl Palmer, didn’t recognize the first two [...]
