Helicopter

France was plunged into mourning Tuesday after three well-known sports stars, including an Olympic champion swimmer and one of the world's best sailors, died in a helicopter crash in Argentina while filming a reality TV show.
      

A Turkish military helicopter was tracked and spotted flying over the eastern Aegean island of Kos on Thursday, reportedly at an altitude of less than 1,000 feet.

The aircraft entered the Athens FIR at 09.08 GMT, while a minute later it was over the eastern portion of the island, exiting the Athens FIR at 09.13 GMT.

Two men and one woman were rescued by a Greek Navy helicopter in the early hours of Saturday on Mount Dirfi on Evia, after they were left stranded on the mountain following heavy snowfall in the area.

All three were reportedly in good health and were airlifted to Tanagra airport.

Minister of Interior, Gabriel Oprea, on Tuesday told a videoconference with the prefects that he decided, after consulting with Prime Minister Victor Ponta, to rethink the intervention procedures in emergency situations, in order to ensure a maximum efficiency of this system.

All four people aboard an emergency care SMURD helicopter that crashed into Siutghiol lake near the Black Sea coast Monday afternoon have died, with Internal Affairs Minister Gabriel Oprea voicing deep regret at their death, the Internal Affairs Ministry said in a release to AGERPRES on Tuesday.

An Ankara information technology company has developed software that allows helicopters to fly in foggy weather conditions.

An examination by police bomb disposal experts of fragments of a remote-controlled miniature helicopter that fell on a parked car in the southern coastal suburb of Vouliagmeni, causing alarm, has indicated that the toy had not been carrying explosives as originally suspected.

Police forensic officers on Friday were examining the fragments of a remote-controlled miniature helicopter carrying explosives which blew up while in flight in the southern coastal suburb of Vouliagmeni, damaging a parked car but causing no injuries.

Police gave no details of who was suspected of operating the helicopter nor of who the potential target of the device may have been.

A helicopter that scooped water from the pond of a zoo in central Anatolia to douse a nearby wildfire has caused the death of several birds.

The firefighting helicopter came from the southern province of Adana on Aug. 22 to help locals extinguish a fire spreading in the forests of Mount Ali in Kayseri province.

A large firefighting unit comprising 30 firemen handling 13 fire engines as well as five water-dropping aircraft and two helicopters was dispatched on Wednesday to contain a large blaze that broke out on forestland in northwestern Rhodes, close to the village of Soroni.