Amazon.com Inc. has unveiled a revolutionary new drone — part helicopter and part science-fiction aircraft — that the company expects to use for test deliveries of toothpaste and other household goods starting within months. The new device takes off vertically, …
Officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety have fired from helicopters five times in the past two years, disabling one vehicle. The Austin American-Statesman reported its findings Saturday. The newspaper says the information came from records obtained through a …
The defense took aim at a Coast Guard investigator’s contention that the co-pilot of a helicopter that crashed, killing three, was “not actively navigating.” An attorney for Lt. Lance Leone, John Smith, referred to the transcript of the cockpit voice …
The Canadian couple who died in a helicopter crash on the Hawaiian island of Molokai were taking their first vacation in several years. Stuart Robertson was second in command at Toronto-based Quartet Service Inc., a technology management service company, where …
Mexican officials ruled out engine failure in the helicopter crash that killed the government’s No. 2 official, saying Sunday that all evidence in the investigation so far points to an accident. Civil aviation director Gilberto Lopez Meyer said at a …
Federal investigators are examining the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in the front yard of a West Palm Beach home. No serious injuries were reported from Saturday’s crash. The pilot and one passenger were taken to the hospital as …
A North Carolina Marine Corps base is investigating why people attending a chili festival were hurt by flying debris as a military helicopter took off. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point spokesman Mike Barton said Sunday investigators haven’t spoken to …
The Marine Corps says a number of people were injured by debris sent flying by wind from a military helicopter’s rotors as it departed the Havelock Chili Festival. Marine officials said in a news release that the debris was swept …
A new study by the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds that helicopters servicing drilling platforms and vessels in the Gulf of Mexico crash on average more than six times per year,resulting in an average of 5 …