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An Afghan policemen looks at the wreckage from a crashed Turkish helicopter on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 16, 2012. A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing several Turkish soldiers on board and young girls on the ground, Turkish and Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Turkish helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; 14 dead

Rahim Faiez, Suzan Fraser The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 9:57am

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and two girls on the ground, Turkish and Afghan officials said.

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This undated image provided by the US Marines shows a AH-1W "Cobra" helicopter. Seven Marines were killed in a collision of two helicopters, one of them similar to this one, near Yuma, Ariz., during night training exercises, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Lt. Maureen Dooley with Miramar Air Base in California said the service members with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing were based at Camp Pendleton north of San Diego. The crash involved an AH-1W "Cobra" and UH-1 "Huey" helicopter. (AP Photo/US Marines)

7 Marines killed in chopper collision

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:18am

YUMA, Ariz. — Seven Marines were killed late Wednesday in a collision of two helicopters near Yuma, Ariz., during night training exercises, the Marine Corps said Thursday.

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Teton County Search and Rescue helicopter pilot Ken Johnson is assisted after being flown out of the Togwotee Pass back country in northwestern Wyoming near Jackson on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. A helicopter crash in remote northwest Wyoming has killed one of the three people aboard who were trying to help a snowmobiler, and sheriff's officials say the snowmobiler also has died. The snowmobiler's party had called for help Wednesday. Teton County sheriff's officials say the helicopter had reached them but was leaving to get more help when it crashed on Togwotee Pass. They say 63-year-old rescuer Ray Shriver was killed, and the pilot and another rescuer were taken to a hospital. Sheriff's officials say deputies reached the snowmobilers after tending to the helicopter victims, but 53-year-old Steven Anderson of Morris, Minn., also has died. Details of what led his party to call for help weren't immediately available. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Bradly J. Boner)

Rescuer, snowmobiler killed when copter crashes

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Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 1:07pm

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Federal authorities on Thursday were investigating the crash of a search-and-rescue helicopter in northwest Wyoming that killed a volunteer crew member who was trying to help an injured snowmobiler who also died.

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A British military official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) adjusts his helmet, as a NATO helicopter lands at the Provincial Reconstruction Team compound in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The helicopter landed to pick up Afghan officials to take them to the Kajaki district of Helmand one day after a suicide attack. The suicide bomber blew himself at a bridge under construction in Kajaki district of Helmand province, according to Mohammad Ismail, the deputy of the Afghan security forces coordination office in the area. Ismail said NATO troops also were working at the construction site, but it was unclear whether any were injured or killed. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)

Afghanistan copter crash kills 6 Marines

Robert Burns The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 11:49am

WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. defense official says all six reported killed in the crash of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan were U.S. Marines.

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Four Army aviators killed in helicopter crash

Stacia Glenn Tacoma News Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 4:51pm

TACOMA, Wash. -- Four Army aviators were killed Monday night when two military helicopters crashed in a training area southwest of Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Thurston County, Wash., officials said.

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NTSB releases prelim report on Vegas chopper crash

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 12:46pm

LAS VEGAS -- Federal investigators are looking at unexpected turns and a sudden climb that a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter made moments before a crash that killed the pilot and four passengers who were marking marriage milestones.

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File-In this Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011 file photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, investigators examine the wreckage of a sightseeing tour helicopter from Las Vegas that crashed in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada near the Hoover Dam. The Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 crash killed the pilot and four tourists, including a couple from Kansas and a couple from New Delhi, India. Federal crash investigators plan Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 to airlift large pieces of charred wreckage from the remote canyon as they wind up their on-site probe of a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter crash that killed five people. (AP Photo/NTSB)

Crews to remove Nev. helicopter wreckage by air

Katy Daigle, Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 3:05pm

LAS VEGAS -- Friends in India mourned the deaths of a honeymooning couple who were among five people killed in a sightseeing helicopter crash near Las Vegas, while U.S. crash investigators worked Monday to airlift large pieces of charred wreckage from the remote canyon where the aircraft went down.

A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson in Washington, D.C., said pieces of the Aerospatiale AS-350BS would be taken to Phoenix for study by teams from the NTSB and the French accident investigation agency BEA. NTSB officials said BEA is involved because the aircraft was built in France.

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National Transportation Safety Board member Mark Rosekind speaks to members of the media about a helicopter crash during a news conference at McCarran International Airport Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Las Vegas. A tour helicopter crashed killing the pilot and four passengers on Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

5 bodies removed from Vegas tour crash site

Cristina Silva, Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 10:17am

LAS VEGAS -- Rescue crews completed the difficult process of recovering bodies Thursday from a remote canyon outside Las Vegas after the crash of a tour helicopter belonging to a company with repeated aviation violations.

Sundance Helicopters of Las Vegas had at least five accidents and was the subject of 10 federal enforcement actions since 1994. It charted a luxury sunset tour of the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam on Wednesday that killed a 31-year-old pilot and his four passengers.

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Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy, center, talks with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police search and rescue crew members after an aerial inspection of a helicopter crash site, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Las Vegas. Five people died when a helicopter on a tour of the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam crashed in a remote site near Lake Mead on Tuesday night killing the pilot and four passengers. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Remote location will complicate Nev. crash recovery, probe

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 3:10pm

LAS VEGAS -- The recovery of bodies and investigation into the crash of a Nevada tour helicopter that killed the pilot and four passengers will be complicated because of the remote canyon location near Lake Mead, an investigator said Thursday.

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A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police rescue helicopter heads to the site of a tour helicopter crash to scout for access to begin the recovery process, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Las Vegas. Five people died when a tour helicopter crashed in a remote site near Lake Mead on Tuesday night killing the pilot and four passengers. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

5 killed in helicopter tour crash near Lake Mead

Cristina Silva The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 12:46pm

LAS VEGAS -- Federal crash investigators and a local recovery team expect to retrieve five bodies Thursday from a remote canyon near Lake Mead where a tour helicopter crashed during a sightseeing flight over the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam.

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Helicopter crash at Calif. base kills 2 Marines

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Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 5:28pm

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A helicopter that went down during a training exercise at Southern California's Camp Pendleton killed two Marines and set off a two-acre brush fire on the base on Monday.

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3 seriously injured in Utah helicopter crash

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 8:44pm

HEBER CITY-- Authorities say a group of bystanders helped save three people in a helicopter crash by lifting the downed aircraft off a teenage victim, then pulling the boy's mother and the pilot from the wreckage.

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2 Navy SEALs killed in Afghan crash from Utah

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 8:21am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Two Navy SEALs killed over the weekend in Afghanistan when their helicopter was shot down were raised in Utah, and died doing what they loved, serving their country, family and friends said.

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Portraits of Navy SEALS killed in helicopter crash

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Last updated Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 8:25am

The Navy SEALS who died aboard a downed helicopter in Afghanistan came to the special forces from far-flung corners of the country, some motivated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They were intensely patriotic and talented young men with a love of physical challenges and a passion for the high-risk job they chose.

Thirty Americans -- 22 of them SEALS -- and eight Afghans were killed Saturday when a rocket-propelled grenade fired by a Taliban insurgent downed their Chinook helicopter en route to a combat mission. All but two of the SEALs were from SEAL Team 6, the unit that killed Osama bin Laden, although military officials said none of the crash victims was on that mission in Pakistan against the al-Qaida leader.

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Photos of Navy SEAL Chris Campbell sit on the wood burning stove of his parents, Diane and Larry Campbell, Monday morning Aug. 8, 2011, in Jacksonville, N.C. On the left is a picture Chris with his wife Angelina taken approximately 3 yrs ago, and on the right is a picture of Campbell in his Navy uniform taken approximately 5 months ago. Campbell, 36, was one of 22 SEALs killed Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, along with eight other U.S. troops and eight Afghans when their helicopter was brought down in Afghanistan, his family told The Daily News of Jacksonville. (AP Photo/The Jacksonville Daily News, John Althouse)

Military killed Taliban who downed US helicopter

Lolita C. Baldor, Pauline Jelinek The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 10:10am

WASHINGTON -- International forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. and Afghan forces over the weekend, but they are still seeking the top insurgent leader they were going after in Saturday's mission, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

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