Tag: Helicopters

Texas Helicopter Crash Near Mexican Border Kills 3

A helicopter carrying National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent crashed on Friday in southern Texas near the border with Mexico, killing three of its occupants and critically injuring the fourth, officials said. The helicopter, which crashed at 2:50 p.m., was a UH-72 Lakota, Joint Task Force North said in a statement. Two of […]

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5 Marines Confirmed Dead in Helicopter Crash in California

The Marine Corps confirmed on Thursday that five Marines had died in Tuesday’s helicopter crash east of San Diego. The announcement from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing came after a search and rescue operation located the helicopter on Wednesday in Pine Valley, about 44 miles east of San Diego. But the military did not confirm […]

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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Ends Its Mars Mission

Ingenuity, the little Mars helicopter that could, can’t anymore. At least one rotor broke during the robotic flying machine’s most recent flight last week, NASA officials announced on Thursday. Ingenuity remains in contact with its companion, the Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up river bed for signs of extinct Martian life. Ingenuity will […]

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Inyo Mountain Hiker Pinned Under Boulder: ‘I’m Going to Die Up Here’

The sun slipped behind the mountains and darkness fell as Kevin DePaolo lay in the freezing sand, a boulder weighing as much as 10,000 pounds bearing down on his right leg in the California mountains. As the hours stretched on, he oscillated between a Zen-like calm and a seizing terror that rescue would never come. […]

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Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the Skies

Chris Caputo stood on the tarmac at Burlington International Airport in Vermont in early October and looked to the clouds in the distance. He had piloted military and commercial aircraft over a long career, racking up thousands of flight hours, but the trip he was about to take would be very different. That’s because the […]

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