Category: Helicopter Crashes

Two of Six Crew in Hospital After Air Force Helicopter Crashes at Newfoundland Base

Two military members were in hospital Thursday evening after a search and rescue helicopter crashed at 9 Wing Gander air force base in central Newfoundland, officials said. The injured were among six crew members on board the CH-149 Cormorant aircraft when the afternoon crash occurred, the Royal Canadian Air Force said in a series of…


Medical Helicopter Crashes Near Church; All 4 Aboard Survive

UPPER DARBY, Pa.—A pilot crash landed a medical helicopter Tuesday without casualties in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, miraculously avoiding a web of power lines and buildings as the aircraft fluttered, hit the street, and slid into bushes outside a church, authorities and a witness said. None of the four people on board, including…