JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash.—An Army helicopter crashed at a military base in Washington state during a routine training exercise Monday night, sending the two pilots to a hospital. A Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokesperson told The News Tribune Tuesday that what the person called an “aviation mishap” on Monday night involved a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache […]
A pro-life activist who free-climbed the Sphere in Las Vegas faces damage charges of $100,000. The climber spoke with NTD and said that the charges are not true. A California father pleads guilty to starting a forest fire in 2020. The massive blaze killed one firefighter and injured a dozen others. Local California officials want […]
The CEO of one of Nigeria’s largest banks was killed Friday along with his wife and son when a helicopter they were riding in crashed near Interstate 15 in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. Herbert Wigwe, chief executive of Access Bank, was among the six people on board when the aircraft went down shortly after 10 […]
SAN DIEGO—The Marine Corps released the names Friday of the five Marines killed when their CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter went down in the mountains outside San Diego during a historic storm. All of them were in their 20s. The decorated Marines were assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine […]
Five Marines who went missing when a helicopter crashed in California this week have been found dead, officials said on Feb. 8. “Five Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing have been confirmed deceased following a CH-53E helicopter crash on Feb. 6, 2024,” the Marine Corps unit […]
A missing military helicopter is now found, but five Marines remain missing. The aircraft was coordinating search and rescue efforts in Southern California. The bipartisan border security deal failed in the Senate Wednesday. Californians get a small break from the rain. We take a look at the current damages, as residents brace for more storms […]
SAN DIEGO—Rescuers were battling heavy snow Wednesday to reach a Marine Corps helicopter carrying five troops that went down in a mountainous area outside San Diego. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter—the largest helicopter in the military, designed to fly in harsh conditions—had gone missing as an historic storm dumped heavy snow and record rain over […]
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile—Sebastián Piñera, the two-time former president of Chile who faced social upheaval followed by a pandemic in his second term, died Tuesday in a helicopter crash. He was 74. Chile Interior Minister Carolina Tohá confirmed the death of the former president. No further details were immediately released about the cause of the […]
WASHINGTON—NASA said on Thursday its Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity, the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world, has been grounded for good after flying dozens of times over three years, ending a landmark mission that far exceeded all expectations. The fate of Ingenuity was sealed when imagery beamed back to Earth after […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Three people have died in a heli-ski helicopter crash in the Canadian province of British Columbia, authorities said Tuesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in west-central British Columbia said that seven people were aboard, leaving three dead and four others badly injured. Terrace Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that the aircraft was one […]
SPOFFORD, Texas—A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter patrolling the state’s border with Mexico crashed Thursday night, according to a statement by a DPS spokesperson. The single-engine helicopter with a pilot and co-pilot on board crashed about 7:20 p.m. near Spofford in Kinney County after “a total loss of power,” according to the statement on […]
All six crew members of a U.S. Navy helicopter miraculously survived as they crashed into Southern Californian waters Thursday night, an army spokesperson has said. The MH-60R Seahawk crashed into San Diego Bay near Naval Amphibious Base Coronado at around 6:40 p.m. while on a routine training mission, according to Cmdr. Beth Teach of the […]
RENO, Nev.—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, the family of Jonathan Udall, 31, will […]
SHAMONG, N.J.—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 Safety Board, told […]
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J.—Investigators were looking for evidence Wednesday of what caused a news helicopter to crash in the New Jersey Pinelands the night before, killing the pilot and photographer on board. Chopper 6 from WPVI-TV in Philadelphia was returning from an assignment at the Jersey Shore when it went down Tuesday night in a section […]
JUNEAU, Alaska—A helicopter that crashed in southeast Alaska during a rescue mission last month has been recovered, the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday. The downed Coast Guard helicopter was recovered Friday and an investigation was ongoing. The MH-60 Jayhawk crashed on Read Island, about 80 miles east of Sitka, on Nov. 13. The four aircrew […]
KADUNA, Nigeria—A Nigerian Air Force helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff in the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt on Friday but all five crew members survived with only minor injuries, a spokesperson said. The incident occurred at about 0645 GMT shortly after the MI-35P helicopter took off for an operation in the oil-rich Rivers State, […]
ISTANBUL—Underwater teams are trying to recover a helicopter that crashed in a lake over the weekend, killing three crew members, while fighting a forest fire in western Turkey, state media reported Monday. Four crew members were aboard the firefighting aircraft when it fell into the waters of the Tahtali dam while battling a blaze in […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A pilot told investigators he heard a loud bang before a Florida medical rescue helicopter caught fire in flight last month, leading to a crash that killed a paramedic and a woman on the ground, a federal report released Friday said. The twin-engine Broward County Fire-Rescue helicopter had just taken off from Pompano […]
A police helicopter that crashed at a South Carolina airport was missing a bolt that should have been removed and reinstalled during maintenance about six weeks earlier, federal officials said in a report. A second bolt on the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office helicopter also was loose and the pilot, who survived, told investigators he felt […]
