NATO announced that its forces had suffered zero combat deaths, and two deaths from an Apache helicopter crash.

On 28 February 2011 ONUCI consisted of 7, 568 troops, 177 military observers, and numerous international civilians and Police ; the mission had received helicopter and infantry reinforcement from UNMIL during the stand-off since the late 2010 elections which had been won by Alassane Ouattara.

These large scale raids mainly became possible as the contras were able to use US-provided Redeye missiles against Sandinista Mi-24 helicopter gunships, which had been supplied by the Soviets.

The statue of Christ flown by helicopter over Rome to Saint Peter's Square was inspired by an actual media event on May 1, 1956, which Fellini had witnessed.

Harry had to pass his flying assessment at the Army Air Corps Base ( AAC ), Middle Wallop, the result of which determined if he would pass on to train as a pilot of either the Apache, Lynx, or Gazelle helicopter.

This trend has had limited uptake in Western forces with only Germany equipping their airmobile division with the similar Wiesel tankette two of which can be carried inside a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter.

The authorities, who preceded the Black Septemberists and hostages in a third helicopter, had an ulterior motive: they planned an armed assault at the airport.

Of the four hostages in the eastern helicopter, only Ze ' ev Friedman's body was relatively intact ; he had been blown clear of the helicopter by the explosion.

Massoud, who had survived countless assassination attempts over a period of 26 years, died in a helicopter taking him to a hospital.

Three rogue saltwater crocodiles were relocated 400 kilometres by helicopter in northern Australia, but had returned to their original locations within three weeks, based on data obtained from tracking devices attached to the reptiles.

Australian SASR soldiers had infiltrated the area prior to the first helicopter crash undetected as part of a long range reconnaissance mission when the Chinooks went down.

Along the way, she picks up several survivors and also finds the injured First Lady ( Mary McDonnell ), who had been flying out of Los Angeles by helicopter when it was knocked down in the alien attack.

Louis was also involved with early aircraft development and had attempted to develop a helicopter, but his noted successes relate to high-explosive ordnance ( especially fuses ).

The Bristol Aeroplane Company's Helicopter Division had its roots in 1944, when the helicopter designer Raoul Hafner, released from the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment ( AFEE ), came to Bristol along with some members of his team.

He has an ongoing feud with traffic reporter Arnie Pye, and has been shown to criticize Pye's reporting and also even chuckles when it was thought Pye had died in a helicopter accident.

After landing in Milan, Martin's scheduled helicopter trip to Sanremo had to be postponed due to poor weather conditions.

The pilot of the aircraft that hit the helicopter had ejected, but was killed as he hit the runway before his parachute opened.

A second helicopter on the mission picked up the first helicopter's crew and flew to where the crew member had fallen.

All trapped and injured people had to be taken out by helicopter, as there was no way to get in or out of the Lost Valley section.

This was the first time the incumbent Helikopter Service had received competition on their offshore helicopter services.

By 1905 he had finished his first fixed-wing aircraft design, and also a helicopter.

The only air services Macau had in the 1990s were helicopter services operated by East Asia Airlines to Hong Kong.

During the series filming, Crawford's weight and penchant for heavy drinking contributed to several injuries suffered on the set, and it became particularly difficult for Crawford to do certain scenes, such as when he had to enter and exit a CHP police helicopter.

Summarizes the excavation and transport by helicopter of a possible Albertosaurus skeleton ; however, per Carr & Williamson ( 2010 ), specimen may later have been assigned to Bistahieversor.

In the ensuing chaos, two of the kidnappers ( Ahmed Chic Thaa and Afif Ahmed Hamid ) holding the helicopter pilots were killed, and the remaining gunmen ( one or two of whom may have already been wounded ) scrambled to safety, returning fire from behind and beneath the helicopters, out of the snipers ' line of sight, shooting out many of the airport lights.

In addition to the helicopter, many approaches have been tried to develop practical aircraft with vertical take-off and landing capabilities.

These simulators have been used for a variety of purposes including continued training for Space Shuttle pilots, development of future spacecraft handling qualities, helicopter control system testing, Joint Strike Fighter evaluations, and accident investigations.

One idea has been to fit the existing Searchwater radar to the Merlin helicopter, while other options have included the E-2 Hawkeye and an ASaC version of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.

All Army Aviation training has been undertaken at Fort Rucker since 1973, as well as training of US Air Force and ally helicopter pilots.

The department has been working with a small pilotless helicopter since 2008.

Fort Hood has been instrumental in the fielding of the M1 Abrams tank, M2 / 3 Bradley Infantry / Cavalry Fighting Vehicle, the Multiple Launch rocket System ( MLRS ), and the AH-64 Apache helicopter.

His ascent to central party leadership has been compared by some Chinese to " helicopter flight " due to his extraordinary rise from the working class.

It had been started by a stranded motorist, Valinda Jo Elliott, trying to signal a news helicopter.

Occasionally people have been rescued by helicopter from the beach or cliffs.

Barnard had been detoured towards the Common by a police diversion as communication between ground forces and the police helicopter remained sporadic.

Since the late 1980s, Świdnik has been producing a Polish-designed medium helicopter PZL W-3 Sokół.

The company was taken over by AEG, but soon after this the Air Ministry, which had been impressed by the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter, suggested that Focke establish a new company dedicated to helicopter development and issued him with a requirement for an improved design capable of carrying a payload.

The company was taken over by AEG, but soon after this the Air Ministry, which had been impressed by the Fw 61 helicopter, suggested that Focke establish a new company dedicated to helicopter development and issued him with a requirement for an improved design capable of carrying a payload.

Tichy is evacuated from the scene by the military, but during his rescue the helicopter crashes and he awakes in the hospital, where he finds that his brain has been transplanted into the body of an attractive young black woman.

More advanced aerobatics such as loops, rolls and helicopter spins, are more difficult still and are tackled once the basics have been mastered.

Acting on behalf of the town's Bicentennial Committee, Royal Australian Air Force officers Andrew Cairns and Jock MacGowan constructed the release cage from PVC pipe, purchased and numbered the ducks, printed tickets, and even arranged a helicopter flypast.

Clive had arranged for a RAF helicopter to come and get her to meet him at the lifeboat but in a dramatic chase, the Interceptor's and the RAF helicopter race.

After commandeering the backroads of rural Mexico, Price arranged to have a helicopter meet him near an abandoned silver mine at Zapata.