The National Transportation Safety Board has said the helicopter was flying above its mandated 200-foot ceiling and that its crew was likely wearing night vision goggles, which pilots said can ...

From an aviation standpoint, that’s where you have to start separating it.” By that point, helicopter pilots had been dropping water on the flames for about nine hours, but were fighting a ...

That altimeter uses a radio beam to show the helicopter’s altitude above ground level, but it may not have been what the pilots of the helicopter were referencing at the time of the crash ...

Captain S., a helicopter pilot in Squadron 118, who brought home the released hostages, shared his feelings during the operation. "A sense of pain, responsibility, and hope. Pain for the suffering ...

Airline pilots received more than 100 cockpit warnings over the past decade that they were in danger of a midair collision with a helicopter ... to the doctor,” said Michael McCormick, a ...

The helicopter pilots also may have missed part of another communication, when the tower said the jet was shifting to a different runway, she said. Homendy said the helicopter was on a check ...

WASHINGTON — The crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport may have had inaccurate altitude ...

on January 29, indicated the helicopter’s altimeter may have been inaccurate and the pilots may not have heard some calls from the Reagan National Airport control tower, officials said.