In some cases, the exact cause of death for the hostages in the eastern helicopter was difficult to establish because the rest of the corpses were burned almost beyond recognition in the explosion and subsequent fire.

Fearing a terrorist attack, an Israeli Air Force AH-64A helicopter fired upon the Cessna, resulting in its complete disintegration, and the death of Estephan Nicolian, a student pilot.

The incident arose from the death of several Russian VIPs in a helicopter crash early in 2009, purportedly on a poaching excursion.

Calley's original defense that the death of the villagers was the result of an accidental helicopter or aerial airstrike was quashed by the few prosecution witnesses.

Hawk successfully steals the Da Vinci Codex from another museum, but eventually refuses to steal the helicopter design, and Tommy Five-Tone fakes his death so they can escape.

Mueller falls to her death before the others are saved by a helicopter rescue by O ' Hallorhan.

The helicopter flies away and Taylor weeps as he stares down at the death and destruction.

In 1971, after his death, his Mil Mi-12 won the Sikorsky Prize as the most powerful helicopter in the world.

Other controversial incidents include helicopter crashes, the Girard incident, the Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident, the death of Kinjo family and the death of Yuki Uema.

Infuriated, Beckett blames the helicopter CO for Papich's death.

But the army was warweary, and after the death of the highly capable General Oyite Ojok in a helicopter accident at the end of 1983, it began to split along ethnic lines.

He served four years in the latter position, until his death, following a Mi-8 helicopter crash.

He served as the governor of Krasnoyarsk until his death in a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crash on April 28, 2002, after the helicopter collided with electric lines during foggy weather in the Sayan Mountains.

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

Although Rambo's helicopter is heavily damaged by Podovsky's helicopter, he manages to land his helicopter on a river, then fakes his death.

The story began with the death of Chapin family matriarch Katherine, and while everyone mourned her, her long-absent daughter, Taylor ( Jo Ann Pflug ; Tina Louise ), stepped off a helicopter holding a racehorse's victory wreath.

* On June 18, 1986, a Grand Canyon Airlines DHC-6 collided with a Bell 206 helicopter, resulting in the death of all 20 people on board the DHC-6 and all five people on board the helicopter.

Bond breaks free of the death trap and escapes the mines in a helicopter piloted by Serena.

The Gibson clone pilots the helicopter at Drucker with a remote control, causing Drucker to jump onto a glass roof to avoid its blades, but the glass breaks and sends him falling to his death.

Word of Dag Hammarskjold's death in an African plane crash has sent a shockwave around the globe.

But at least the pessimists who believed that the world organization had plunged to its death in that plane crash in the Congo have been proved wrong.

Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as " the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.

The launch of Bobby Vee's successful musical career resulted from Holly's death, when he was selected to replace Holly on the tour that continued after the plane crash.

Boganda ruled until his death in a plane crash on 29 March 1959.

Storylines throughout the decade included: a mystery poison-pen letter received by Elsie Tanner, the 1962 marriage of Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock, the death of Martha Longhurst in 1964, the birth of the Barlow twins in 1965, Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner as well as a train crashing from the viaduct ( both in 1967 ), the murder of Steve Tanner in 1968, and a coach crash in 1969.

This accident, as well as a similar accident that led to the death of Russell Phillips at Charlote, led NASCAR to mandate the " Earnhardt Bar ", a metal brace located in the center of the windshield that reinforces the roof in case of a similar crash.

Some angry fans of Earnhardt wrote hate letters and death threats to Sterling Marlin, blaming him for causing the crash.

His death, along with several advisers, in a suspicious plane crash in 1986 interrupted progress.

* 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash ; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

* 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.

For this reason, Wankel engines are very well suited to snowmobiles, which often take users into remote places where a failure could result in frostbite or death, and aircraft, where abrupt failure is likely to lead to a crash or forced landing.

" He continued: " The heart stood still, and the stoutest cheek paled as this rain of death fell from the sky and crash after crash foretold a more fearful fate yet impending ... old and young, soldier and citizen vied with each other in deeds of daring to rescue the crumbled and imprisoned.

Ping of death is based on sending the victim a malformed ping packet, which might lead to a system crash.

This film takes up Patton's story following his transfer to assume command of the 15th Army, through to the car crash and his death on the December 21, 1945.

The shooting script features a scene in Angela's car in which Ricky and Jane talk about death and beauty ; the scene differed from earlier versions, which set it as a " big scene on a freeway " in which the three witness a car crash and see a dead body.

Most prominent was Lin Biao, until his purported flight from China and death in a plane crash in 1971.

In NASCAR, the 6-point harness became popular after the death of Dale Earnhardt, who was wearing a five-point harness when he suffered his fatal crash ; as it was first thought that his belt had broken, some teams ordered a six-point harness in response.

Observational studies of car crash morbidity and mortality, experiments using both crash test dummies and human cadavers indicate that wearing seat belts greatly reduces the risk of death and injury in the majority of car crashes.

One large observation studying using US data showed that the odds ratio of crash death is 0. 46 with a three-point belt, when compared with no belt.