A UN helicopter crash-landed in an area controlled by armed Islamists in Somalia after its main rotor blade was hit by an object, a UN source has said. Al-Shabab fighters seized the helicopter, with unverified reports suggesting that a passenger was shot dead, the source told the BBC. A further six people on board are […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada judge has approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a British tourist who was among five killed — including his newlywed wife — when a helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Grand Canyon in 2018. Under the settlement approved in Las Vegas on Friday, […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Officials in Somalia say al-Shabab extremists on Wednesday killed one person and captured five others on a United Nations helicopter that made an emergency landing in an area controlled by the fighters. The minister of internal security of Galmudug state in central Somalia, Mohamed Abdi Aden Gaboobe, told The Associated Press […]
The Somali armed Islamist group al-Shabab has seized a United Nations helicopter, along with about eight people, both passengers and crew, local sources have told the BBC. The helicopter landed in territory controlled by the group in central Somalia. Some reports said it had been forced to make an emergency landing, while others said the […]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter set a new Mars record last month, by the skin of its robotic teeth. The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity covered 2,315 feet (705 meters) of Red Planet ground on Dec. 20, according to the mission’s flight log. The old mark was 2,310 feet (704 m), which the little chopper set in April […]
LEHI, Utah (ABC4) — Residents in Lehi want to know why someone has repeatedly been allowed to fly a helicopter from the backyard of a residential home. Video submitted to ABC4 shows a red helicopter taking off from the unfenced backyard of a home in Vivian Estates, a residential neighborhood located on the Wasatch Front […]
A house that would be a dream Airbnb — or simply a dream come true for a kid — has landed on the real estate market in Kissimmee, Florida, for $3 million. Backyard The unique 10-bedroom, 11-bathroom estate is ideal for a family with an abundance of imagination and a love of everything sky related. […]
SHAMONG, N.J. (AP) — A Philadelphia television news helicopter returning from an assignment photographing Christmas lights earlier this week plunged into a southern New Jersey forest “at very high speed,” broke apart, then caught fire after it crashed, killing both occupants, a federal crash investigator said Friday. Todd Gunther, an investigator with the National Transportation […]
New information has been released in connection to the ABC News helicopter that crashed in southern New Jersey on Tuesday night, as investigators said Friday there was no evidence of an in-flight fire or explosion. The Philadelphia-based chopper had been returning from an assignment filming Christmas lights on the Jersey Shore when it crashed into […]
Whether we’re talking about real life or fiction, space travel is hard. When Harry Vanderspeigle (real name unpronounceable) visited our pale blue dot, a stray bolt of lightning brought down his craft and stranded him on Earth. Even the intelligent extraterrestrials of Resident Alien (streaming now on Peacock) couldn’t manage visiting another world without leaving […]
A Philadelphia news helicopter crashed in a wooded area of New Jersey on Tuesday night, killing the pilot and a photographer on board, the television station said. The helicopter was returning to Philadelphia from an assignment at the Jersey Shore when it went down in Washington Township, New Jersey, around 8 p.m., WPVI-TV reported Wednesday. […]
Jim O’Brien became a local legend and viewer favorite as an anchor and weatherman on Action News. Fans remember him on the 35th anniversary of his death. Long before sophisticated radar and 3D images defined local TV weather broadcasts, Jim O’Brien delivered the forecast with cloud magnets and a smile. And that’s all viewers needed. […]