Tag: helicopter crash

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 20:18 UTC

  Ukraine's Interior Minister killed in helicopter crash

  

  Ukraine's Interior Minister Denis Monastyrskyi, Deputy Minister Yevgeny Yenin, and the ministry's state secretary Yurii Lubkovytch were among the 16 people killed Wednesday when a relief helicopter crashed in Brovary, a town of about 100,000 people in eastern Kyiv en route to “one of the hot spots in our country where fighting is going on,”

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Falklands' civilian Sea King crash lands in Hampshire; corrosion to blame

  

  Mechanical failures after a helicopter was transported from the Falkland Islands caused it to crash land, investigators have found.

• Monday, January 27th 2020 - 07:46 UTC

  NBA legend Kobe Bryant and daughter die in helicopter crash: tributes from all over the world

  

  NBA legend Kobe Bryant died on Sunday when a helicopter crashed and burst into flames in foggy conditions in suburban Los Angeles, killing all nine people on board and plunging the sports world into mourning.

• Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Helicopter crash-lands in the roof of New York skyscraper killing the pilot

  

  A helicopter crash-landed into a high-rise building roof in New York City on Monday afternoon, bursting into flames and killing the pilot, authorities said. The helicopter made a “hard landing or an emergency landing” on the roof of the 54-story building on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters, calling it “not a routine landing.”

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 10:05 UTC

  Award winning Brazilian television news anchor dies in helicopter crash

  

  An award-winning Brazilian television news anchor died on Monday when a helicopter carrying him crashed on one of Sao Paulo's main highways. Ricardo Boechat, a father of six, was returning from a university in the city of Campinas when the helicopter crashed onto a truck.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Hundreds pay tribute to Leicester City owner who died in helicopter crash

  

  Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha's wife and son have joined the English Premier League outfit's players and hundreds of fans at the club's stadium to pay tribute to the victims of a helicopter crash which killed Mr. Srivaddhanaprabha and four people.