A news helicopter in Seattle was taking off from a downtown helipad. The helicopter just got done refueling. The helicopter had just come from Covington, Washington, and was planning to head next to Renton. A routine take off that turned into a disaster. The helicopter then began to make unusual noises. Then they lost control and the helicopter started to rotate counterclockwise. A full 360 degrees before it pitched sideways. The helicopter then crashed right next to the Seattle space needle. Federal Investigators plan to rebuild the wreckage to find out what really happened.
A news helicopter that went down in Seattle and killed two people this week began rotating at takeoff before it pitched forward in a fiery crash. The helicopter continued rotating counterclockwise for about 360 degrees before it pitched forward, nose low. The likely cause of this kind of counterclockwise rotation is the failure of a tail rotor. There are an unacceptably high number of helicopter accidents that have happened in the past decade. Since 2004, 1,600 plus accidents have claimed more than 500 lives. This year alone, there have been 10 other helicopter crashes in the United States. The NTSB is concerned that these types of accidents will continue to occur if a concerted effort is not made to improve the safety of helicopter operations. NTSB wants to understand what happen to prevent this from happing again. NTSB has moved the wreckage to a hanger to reconstruct the helicopter. Investigators are focusing on the helicopter's engine, the airframe, the pilot and the environment.
Several times a day, helicopters land and take off from the helipad above Seattle's Fisher Plaza. But this time was different. A news helicopter tumbled to the ground and burst...
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...juries. The 37-year-old man was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. KOMO News remembered the victims killed in the crash. They were Bill Strothman, a longtime photographer for the television news station who had retired but worked as a freelancer and pilot, Gary Pfitzner. Pilot’s brother said, “He loved what he did, loved to fly."
A pilot and photographer were killed when a KOMO news helicopter crashed on top of three vehicles. A third person was taken to the hospital with serious burns. Richard Newman, 38, is at Harborview Medical Center in serious condition after the helicopter landed on his car. Susan Gregg says he has second- and third-degree burns on up to 20 percent of his body -- on his back and arms. He also has cuts on his head and a broken rib. He's sedated in the intensive care unit and will need surgeries for the burns, but not immediately.
People standing outside the building watched helplessly as people dropped from the windows of the ninth floor. William Shephard, a reporter for the United Press said, “Thud -- ...
On March 13, 1997, an inexplicable phenomenon took place in the sky over Phoenix, Arizona. Thousands of people witnessed the occurrence, and a few dozen even caught it on camera. The event was so astonishing that the most world-renowned news source, CNN, broadcast it on national television. Disappearing, the mind-boggling event left thousands, or even millions, in disbelief at what they had just witnessed. What was it? The world may never know.
2. Facts: On July 2016, a group of six people, including Captain Eric Wilson, was in Fort Collins heavily drinking at a friend’s bachelor party. Captain Wilson broke into an SUV that he believed to be one of his friend’s, Mike. After waiting for Mike for some time, Captain Wilson decided to hot-wire the car and drive home. While driving home, Captain Wilson was intoxicated to the point of swerving and killing an innocent bicyclist. After getting out of the vehicle
I saw that the passenger side rear window to Zhorne’s vehicle was smashed open. I took a photo of the damage (see attached photo).
After the crash, the mangled twin-engine plane rested about 75 yards from the end of the runway in a marshy area. Workers carried away badly burned bodies and laid them nearby. Pieces of the plane were strewn about the crash site.
On December 21, 1988 a civilian airliner exploded over the small town of Lockerbie, located in the Dumfries and Galloway region of southwest Scotland. Aboard were civilians representing 21 different countries; 189 those being from the United States. In all, 270 people lost their lives that day; 259 passengers and crew members and 11 killed on the ground. Because of the altitude, speed, and weather over the region that day, aircraft parts and bodies were scattered over a 2000 square kilometer area. According to The CIA Report: “Terrorist Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 2012)”, months after the plane crash and end of the formal recovery effort, a piece of scorched shirt was discovered. The piece contained a fragment of circuit board that the heat of the explosion had fused into the shirt’s polyester fabric. The organizers, resource suppliers,...
...shows she might have been saved. People who attended the air show on the day of her death say she was only in the air for twelve minutes and her altitude was three thousand feet. Officials later found that a tool slid into the controls panels, which made the plane flip over.
Air Crash Investigations: Cockpit Failure (S10E01). (2014, March 5). Retrieved May 19, 2014, from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1FG8gOKMoo
It was the afternoon of July 25, 2000. One hundred passengers, most of them German, boarded the Concorde Air France Flight 4590. This was a trip of a lifetime for many people, as Concorde was restricted to the wealthy class of people. The excitement in people was cut short by the unfortunate delay in flight, because of maintenance in one of its engines. The passengers boarded the plane a couple of hours after the scheduled time. Finally, it was cleared for taxi on runway 26-Right. The pilots lined the aircraft parallel to the runway. A tragic accident, however, was about to befall.
“In the front seat was Gregg, driving, Sarah, in the middle, and Robyn, on the passenger side. In the rear seat was Jeff, behind the driver, Haley, in the middle, and Rachel, on the passenger side. EVERYONE was wearing their SEAT BELTS, as is our family habit. EVERYONE walked away from this accident with only bruises. The only blood was Robyn had small nicks from glass in a couple of places on her right arm and right leg.
On November 28, 2004 at about 10:00 a.m. mountain standard time, a Canadair (now Bombardier) CL-600-2A12 (Challenger 600), tail number N873G, crashed into the ground during takeoff at Montrose Regional Airport (MJT), Montrose, Colorado. The aircraft was registered to Hop-a-Jet, Inc., and operated by Air Castle Corporation doing business as Global Aviation. (Insert Here)The flight was operating under Part 135 Code of Federal Regulations. The captain filed the flight under an IFR Flight plan. Of the six passengers on board, three died from fatal injuries and the other three sustained major injuries. The aircraft was totaled due to the impact with the ground and a post-crash fire.
...thin minutes and took the film.” There was barely any debris from the plane. The government stated that all the planes that were hijacked were the same. The engine of the plane that was found at the scene of the Pentagon attack didn't have the same engine as the other planes, with that being said, it could have been a smaller plane since it was a smaller building. There were no aircraft wreckage, wings, tails, luggage, seats, and bodies. The plane that appears to be flown into the Pentagon was said to be Flight 77 especially from the size of it. Flight 77 can be remote-controlled whether with or without guidance. The transponders for all of the planes were turned off. The way the plane made its exit was a perfect circle but that circle didn't match the plane that the American government claimed it to be. The Pentagon also seemed to be rigged with explosives as well.
The law enforcement community understands the public concerns for safety and has developed better ways to help pursue fleeing criminals in recent years. One of the best tools now is air support. Helicopters can safely patrol from the sky and there is little chance that the vehicle or criminal can get away. The only problem is that it is very expensive to run. Road spikes have also become popular by puncturing the tires and bringing the vehicle to a crawl.
Flight 93, the flight that crashed near some fields in the outskirts of Pennsylvania. But what was it doing there? What caused the plane to miss its target and crash? These answers may soon be revealed when detectives can finally examine the planes black box, found just recently. Many answers however can be found through other pieces of info that have come up along the way during the investigations.
Finally, in 1997, the US military admitted to lying about the object being a weather balloon. Instead they claim that the wreckage was part of a “top-secret experiment”(Mitton 11) involving some sort of balloon. Steve MacKenzie’s response, “if the object he tracked had been a weather balloon, secret or not, his superiors would have ordered him to ignore it.”(Dudley 35)