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SA 315B Lama, 2003. The Lama was developed specifically to provide a rotorcraft with exceptional high-altitude performance. In practice, the type found considerable use within regions that possessed extensive mountain ranges, such as South America and India, being capable of lifting loads and deploying personnel in areas that had been previously impossible to have otherwise achieved.
The Army helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane was on an “annual proficiency training flight” when it crashed, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a video statement ...
Startling video shows a helicopter spinning out of control and crashing into a small plane at a Texas airport — with the pilot miraculously walking away unscathed. ... The Robinson crash-landed ...
The helicopter broke up in flight [2] while traveling about 229 mph (199 kn) at an altitude of about 2,000 feet (610 m); [3] the main rotor contacted and severed the tail boom due to severe vertical oscillations. The crew were performing one engine inoperative (OEI) recovery testing; the test induced a scissors-mode vibration in the main rotor ...
U.S. Navy H-3 Helicopter crashes off the coast of NS Roosevelt Roads PR. 1 fatality. [149] 9 February An armed USAF Fairchild-Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II, 78-0723, crashed into a cliff in Oak Creek Canyon just north of Sedona, Arizona during a morning rainstorm. A military demolitions crew was sent in to recover unexploded munitions and the ...
The plane lost power after balloons released for the pilot to pop with the plane's propeller became lodged in the engine's carburettor. [80] An automatically inflating lifejacket trapped the pilot in the plane's cockpit, where he was later rescued from the sea by members of the public. [81]
Plane crash site in 2021, Persiaran Elmina. The aircraft took off from Langkawi International Airport en route to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport at 2:08 pm MYT (06:08 UTC). At 2:47 pm, the aircraft made contact with the destination airport's air traffic control (ATC). A minute later, the ATC gave clearance for landing.
Barker and Goldstein escaped the plane and told first responders four others were on board. Both had second and third degree burns and received skin grafts. [3] [10] [11] Goldstein was asleep at the time of the crash and woke up to Barker screaming. [10] Barker opened the door to the plane and slid down the plane's wing. [10]