However, his military career was cut short at the age of 23 when his platoon's helicopter, a CH-46 Sea Knight, crashed during a NATO exercise over the Greek island of Crete.

The helicopter used was a USMC CH-46 Sea Knight call sign Lady Ace 09 of HMM-165 serial number 154803.

* Marine Medium Helicopter Squadrons, United States Marine Corps squadrons that fly the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter.

A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter launches countermeasures ( flares )

** Police in a borrowed United States Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter exchange fire for several hours with spree killer Mark Essex, who is on the roof of a Howard Johnson's motel in downtown New Orleans, Lousiana.

Seeing the story on TV, Lt. General Chuck Pitman of the United States Marine Corps offered the use of a CH-46 military helicopter to assist the police officers.

CH-46s evacuated the Battalion Landing Team by 07: 00 and after an anxious wait a lone CH-46 Swift 2-2 of HMM-164 arrived to evacuate Major Kean and the 10 remaining men of the Marine Security Guards, this last helicopter took off at 07: 53 on 30 April and landed on USS Okinawa at 08: 30.

Ideally the three FACs ( including the Air Officer ) come from three different aviation backgrounds: one tactical jet pilot ( F / A-18 or AV-8B ), one tactical helicopter pilot ( AH-1W or UH-1Y ), and one assault support helicopter pilot ( CH-46 or CH-53 ).

By 02: 15 on 30 April one CH-46 and one CH-53 were landing at the Embassy every 10 minutes.

Lady Ace 09, CH-46 serial number 154803, is now on display at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum in San Diego, California

Chung is suspected of having passed on classified information on designs including the Delta IV rocket, F-15 Eagle, B-52 Stratofortress and the CH-46 and CH-47 helicopters.

Company " H " of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines executed a pre-dawn vertical envelopment of the besieged U. S. Embassy, with 237 Marines inserted via medium and heavy lift Marine CH-53E Super Stallion and CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters.

Following graduation from flight school, he flew CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters with HMM-165 from 1983 to 1985 at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

* " Squadron Row ," an area of booths staffed by units based at Miramar and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, as well as other Marine Corps bases, to meet the public and sell merchandise to support squadron activities, and to display squadron aircraft including fixed-wing ( F / A-18 Hornet and AV-8B Harriers ) and rotor-wing ( AH-1 Cobra, MV-22 Osprey, CH-46 Sea Knight and CH-53 Sea Stallion ) vehicles ;

U. S. Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters land during the MAGTF demo at the MCAS Miramar Air ShowA major element of each year's show is the MAGTF Demo, a simulated assault by numerous Marine Corps units that demonstrates the air, ground and logistical elements of the Marine Air Ground Task Force.

Later that day another CH-46 carrying men from 2 / 1 Marines was hit by NVA fire and crashed killing 13 Marines.

In 1982 the CH-46 D / F models were replaced by the upgraded CH-46E.

HMM-262 was followed by HMM-265, and these two CH-46 squadrons have formed the backbone of the 31st MEU Aviation Combat Element.

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard.

One day a helicopter pilot representative of Beadley's faction lands at the farm and reports that the group has established a successful colony on the Isle of Wight, and that Coker survived to join them.

A rescue helicopter appears and spots them, but Bob dies before it lands.

In agriculture large scale and systematic weeding is usually required, often by machines, such as liquid herbicide sprayers, or even by helicopter ( such as in the USA ), to eliminate the massive amount of weeds present on farming lands.

Unfortunately, an RPG strikes the helicopter and it crash lands in the streets.

* June 28-Jean Moire lands a Bell 47 helicopter on top of Mont Blanc, at an altitude of 4, 807 m ( 15, 772 ft ).

* August 19-U. S. Marine Corps Captain Stephen W. Pless, piloting a UH-1E attack helicopter near Quang Ngai, South Vietnam, drives Viet Cong forces away from Americans stranded on a beach and then lands under heavy fire to rescue them.

Barklage wrestles Oswalds gun from her as he lands the helicopter in the prison yard and shoots her to death.

He destroys most of the camp with the helicopter, then lands and arms himself with the machine gun that is mounted on the Huey, kills the remaining soldiers, and rescues all the POWs.

Yet just as Nelson lands, American helicopters appear and load Nelson on a helicopter.

An elaborate stunt-filled action sequence begins that covers the roads, rooftops, and skies of Kuala Lumpur, finally reaching its climax aboard a speeding train, where Chaibat is killed after his helicopter collides into a tunnel and lands on him.

Three Provisional IRA prisoners escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin after a hijacked helicopter lands in the prison yard.

A helicopter lands at B-15D, January 2001

* 5 June – An South African Air Force Denel Oryx helicopter crash lands at Durban International Airport and the crew suffer only minor injuries

* 1 July – A South African Air Force Atlas Oryx helicopter crash lands near the Johannesburg International Airport with no fatalities

* 6 July – A South African Air Force SE-316B Alouette III helicopter crash lands at Grahamstown.

* For the first time, a helicopter lands on top of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest in Himalaya.

When the helicopter lands, Josef wants Hanna to accompany him, but she walks away without a word.

During their conversation, a helicopter lands and an unconscious woman ( Nadia Gray ) is taken out on a stretcher.

Harrison stumbled upon this site while flying a helicopter over Mexico and noticed numerous hills in predominately flat lands.

Falcon's helicopter lands, McQuade, his daughter, Ramos and Jackson take it leaving the arms dealer to deal with the " federales ".

At the hospital, a helicopter lands, and three men carrying briefcases exit.

There are no paved roads or local infrastructure on the island ; travel to-and-from the island is by boat and by helicopter which lands at the heli pad at Cerf Island Resort Seychelles.