14 December 2011 Last updated at 10:42 GMT The crash site – bottom left – was in a remote ravine near Las Vegas Relatives of a newlywed Indian couple who died in a tourist helicopter crash in Las Vegas last week have filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful death. The civil lawsuit names Sundance Helicopters, which [...]
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December 14, 2011
December 14, 2011
Army helicopter crash kills four soldiers at Washington base
Two US army helicopters crashed, killing four soldiers, during a training mission Monday night at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, a military spokesman confirmed. The reconnaissance helicopters crashed after 8pm in the southwest training area of the sprawling base in Washington state, according to the army. Joint Base Lewis-McChord is one of the largest bases in the [...]
December 12, 2011
Newlyweds named as Las Vegas dead
12 December 2011 Last updated at 09:16 GMT It is still not clear what caused the crash A newlywed Indian couple have been named as among the five people who died in a tourist helicopter crash in Las Vegas last week. Lovish Bhanot, 28, and 26-year-old Anupama Bhola were named by Clark County Coroner Michael [...]
December 11, 2011
VIDEO: Las Vegas chopper crash kills five
Recovery teams are trying to retrieve the bodies of five people killed in a helicopter crash near Las Vegas on Wednesday evening. The aircraft was touring the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam at sunset with four tourists and a pilot aboard when it crashed on a hillside. It is not known what caused the [...]
December 10, 2011
Iranian Video Displays Alleged US Drone
The Iranian government has complained to the United Nations about a U.S. spy drone it says was brought down over eastern Iran this week. Iran accuses the U.S. of violating Iranian airspace and has released video of what Tehran says is the spy plane in question. Iranian state TV released images late Thursday of what [...]
December 9, 2011
VIDEO: Five dead in Las Vegas tourist crash
Recovery teams are trying to retrieve the bodies of five people killed in a helicopter crash near Las Vegas on Wednesday evening. The aircraft was touring the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam at sunset with four tourists and a pilot aboard when it crashed on a hillside. It is not known what caused the [...]
December 8, 2011
November 29, 2011
Pakistan boycotts Bonn conference on Afghanistan’s future
Pakistan will boycott the forthcoming international conference in Bonn on the future of Afghanistan, in protest at the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers killed when a Nato helicopter fired on their border posts. The incident on the Afghan-Pakistan frontier on Saturday has thrown into disarray the coalition’s strategy for stabilising Afghanistan and bringing the Taliban [...]
November 28, 2011
NATO copter attack kills 28 Pakistani soldiers
November 26, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis NATO copter attack kills 28 Pakistani soldiers –Pakistan military slams attack as ‘unprovoked and indiscriminate’ 26 Nov 2011 At least 28 Pakistani soldiers have been killed and 15 others injured in an attack by a NATO helicopter on the Mohmand Agency in northwestern Pakistan, Press TV reports. The incident [...]
October 13, 2011
N.Y. chopper crash claims second victim
New York (CNN) — A second person has died from last week’s helicopter crash in New York’s East River, authorities said Wednesday. Helen Tamaki, 43, had been in critical condition since the crash and died Tuesday, Bellevue Hospital spokeswoman Frances Arscott said. A 15-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash, [...]
October 7, 2011
For Sarah Palin the party’s over | Ana Marie Cox
One would have expected Sarah Palin to exit the American presidential stage in a more ostentatious style: airlifted by a helicopter (all the better for post-politics wolf hunting), carrying a child, wearing running shorts. Her relatively low-key announcement – on a third-rate radio show, in halting language that couldn’t have gotten past a teleprompter – [...]