Helicopter

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter has come under attack during a search and rescue operation tasked with saving the two pilots of the downed Su-24 warplane in Syria, the Russian military said on Tuesday.

The Hellenic Air force successfully managed to rescue a mountaineer after the man suffered a heart problem on the ‘Agapitos’ reserve on Mount Olympus, Northern Greece. A military helicopter landed in the remote area, where it was judged the safest course of action was to transport him immediately to the closest hospital.

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No people were killed or injured after a helicopter crashed in the Black Sea near the beach of the Bulgarian town of Tsarevo on Saturday.

Immediately prior to the incident, the helicopter was flying dangerously low above the water, BGNES news agency informs.

The Hellenic Navy on Thursday released a video showing the rescue of two men whose helicopter made a forced landing off the eastern Attica coast, due east of Athens proper.

The chopper, identified as a 17-year-old Robinson R44 owned by the Superior Air operator, went down off the Porto Rafti resort.

Romania's ambassador to Islamabad, Pakistan, Emilian Ion told AGERPRES on Sunday that he feels physically and mentally good, that he resumed work, blaming the helicopter crash in Pakistan he survived on a technical fault.

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'I am at work. I have resumed work and I am in a very good physical and mental shape,' said Ion.

A Florida man was arrested after he landed his small helicopter on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol on April 15, police said, violating restricted airspace and causing a security scare.
   

Helicopter crew and medical staff decorated posthumously

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolic has posthumously decorated the crew of a military helicopter and medical workers who died in a crash in Belgrade on March 13.

The helicopter crashed killing the six, and a baby they were transporting for medical treatment.

PM "takes responsibility - but doesn't know what for"

OBRENOVAC -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says the Serbian Army (VS) is conducting "a professional investigation" into the crash of one of its helicopters last week.

The results will be published "soon," Vucic told reporters in Obrenovac on Tuesday.

As investigations continued into the cause of the deadly crash, health minister Zlatibor Loncar said on Monday that it was necessary to fly the baby to Belgrade because the child needed to be treated in a larger and better-equipped health centre.