Sentences with phrase «helicopters landing on»

Towards evening, a helicopter landed on the roof of the Korydallos prison.

The Erie County Sheriff's Air One helicopter landed on the quad at Medaille College Wednesday, a vivid show of support for the college's Leaders in Training Program (LIT).

On a dim, cold day an Argentine naval helicopter landed on a broad, tabular berg with a precarious, sideways bounce; the pilot, thrown off by the berg's uniform milky white color, did not realize that his spinning rotors had dipped dangerously low.

At dawn, Tuld's helicopter lands on the roof.

One quiet, rural day, helicopters land on Gabe's front lawn and from one of them strides his old friend.

Your arrival to your wedding ceremony can be as spectacular as a helicopter landing on the beach, or a beautifully romantic horse and cart ride down along the beach esplanade or simply traditional in a luxury sedan, stretch limousine or hummer.

An hour after taking off from an airstrip about 90 km from the western edge of the ice sheet, the helicopter lands on flat, dry, crunchy snow.

Not exact matches

Two men who had chartered a helicopter from San Juan, Puerto Rico to the city of Ponce hijacked the helicopter near the Las Cucharas prison and forced the pilot to land on a roof inside the complex.

A helicopter painted in similar colors to that of Mexico's attorney general's landed in the courtyard of Mexico City's Acatitla prison on August 19th, 1971.

In the 2007 escape, four armed men hijacked a helicopter and landed it on the roof of the Grasse Prison.

Bell Helicopter offers a VIP design service that specializes in choppers custom - designed to land on your megayacht.

«The helicopter landed in a courtyard at the detention center,» police spokeswoman Ann Mathieu told the French news channel RDI on Sunday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to make an unannounced visit to the heavily fortified border separating North and South Korea was aborted on Wednesday after dense fog prevented his helicopter from landing, officials said.

In those future tests, the Dream Chaser will be dropped from the helicopter and attempt to land on a runway.

So this helicopter lands, and they motion for me to get on, when all of a sudden this guy comes running up.

7th Infantry Division Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division board CH - 47 Chinook helicopters piloted by 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade aviators during an air assault attack as part of the inaugural I Corps exercise Courage Ready 18 - 01 hosted by U.S. Army Alaska on U.S. Army Garrison - Alaska training lands near Fort Greely, Alaska, April 25.

The East Hampton Town Board renewed the push to regulate takeoffs and landings at East Hampton Airport at its meeting on Tuesday, as an attorney described the potential ways to restrict, or even ban, aircraft deemed noisy, including helicopters.

On Monday, June 7, at 3:23 a.m., a helicopter landed at East Hampton Airport; at 3:38 a.m. a helicopter took off at East Hampton Airport.

An Nigerian airman has been killed in an attack on an air force helicopter landing facility in the oil - rich Niger Delta region.

From 3:23 am to 3:38 am that helicopter was permitted to operate on Town owned land by our Town Supervisor and the Town Board Members who are the persons responsible for the operations at East Hampton Airport.

«There was verifiable evidence that 2 Nigerian Air Force helicopters with registration numbers NAF 574 and NAF 575 landed in Gembu on 15 March 2018 and 11 April 2018 respectively without the knowledge of the local authority.

From 3:23 a.m. to 3:38 a.m. that helicopter was permitted to operate by our town supervisor and the town board on town - owned land.

The old helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in January; DiNapoli relented on the helicopter purchase several days later.

Spokesman Beau Duffy said the pilot landed in New Windsor because of «concern that the failed component could have led to a fire on the helicopter.»

Cuomo's office announced the landing shortly after it happened on Jan. 11, saying in a press release that the helicopter had «filled with fumes that smelled like smoke» around 4 p.m. while Cuomo and two aides were aboard, and that the cause was under investigation.

A media activist on the ground confirmed the heavy strikes, which he said centred around the Jabal Nuba area where rebels on Tuesday destroyed a Russian helicopter that was forced to make an emergency landing by opposition fire.

After the governor's helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing when it filled with smoke en route from Albany to NYC, the state comptroller might have had a change of heart about signing off on a new $ 12.5 million Sikorsky S - 76D helicopter for the State Police.

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, headquarters has said that its helicopter landing site, Helipad, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital was attacked by unknown gunmen on Sunday...

But he flew on a helicopter to the Rockaways in October 2015 and to Rikers Island last month — a trip that ended with a malfunction on landing that forced him to return to Manhattan aboard a different police chopper.

The Nigerian Airforce headquarters has said that its helicopter landing facility (Helipad) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State was on Sunday attacked by unknown gunmen on Sunday / The Airforce said that its personnel succeeded in repeling the attack even as it lost one airman during the shootout.

The Nigerian Airforce headquarters has said that its helicopter landing facility (Helipad) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State was on Sunday attacked by unknown gunmen on Sunday /

To learn about the everyday lives of these difficult creatures, Fischbach and his colleagues have been attaching satellite tags to walruses — a difficult operation in itself, requiring the biologists to land a helicopter downwind of the herd, then slowly wriggle forward on their bellies until they can fire a tag into an animal's thick skin.

A regular stream of helicopters is landing on the fields to drop off mostly elderly New Orleans residents.

What surprised us were the many signs of unauthorised visits — holes in the ground, marks from helicopter landings, and even a picnic site on the nearby beach, with benches, a primitive furnace and lots of discarded tins.

«We would get about 300 helicopters landing a month, all having some level of trauma,» says Dr. Elisha Powell, an orthopedic surgeon who served as commander of the U.S. Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, a facility described as «MASH on steroids,» where most of the severely brain injured are treated.

This past October Sierra Nevada tested the automated landing system by dropping the Dream Chaser from a helicopter; the vehicle's approach to the runway was spot - on, although a mechanical malfunction prevented one of the wheels from deploying, sending the vehicle skidding off the runway.

The station has a harbor, landing strips on the sea ice and shelf ice, and a helicopter pad.

It is very similar to the current, unmanned Dragon resupply spacecraft, but with the new ability to soft «land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter,» rather than the normal method of parachuting from the atmosphere into the ocean.

Tordon is sprayed by trucks on most county roadsides and by helicopter on large areas of forest and pasture land.

A Japanese boy has been injured after a window fell off a US military helicopter and landed on a school playground - the second such incident in a week China has been staging military drills in the sea bordering North Korea, reportedly in response to the current US - South Korean joint exercise.

A Japanese boy has been injured after a window fell off a US military helicopter and landed on a school playground - the second such incident in a week US and world military spending and budgets are very high, almost back to Cold War levels.

After landing in a helicopter on the White House lawn with President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx), a spouter of fluff who carries Lincoln's pocket watch as part of a banal fixation, agent Hope (Jake Weber) says to Carol, «Do we have the best job in the world or what?»

Judging by the trailer, the scope for Avery's latest endeavor is pretty big; McGregor and Thwaites come to blows on land and at sea and ride around in helicopters and fast cars.

Former world rally driving champion Colin McRae Fears were growing for Scottish rally driver Colin McRae after a helicopter crashed on land near his home.

Most effective in the progress of the film is the way the characters» lack of faith mirrors the viewer's skepticism: We are not satisfied with merely being told that the elevators can not get past the burning 81st floor, that the emergency stairwell is impassable, that the wind is too high for a helicopter to land on the building's roof.

Sound is a wonder, though I couldn't really hear what was going on after the helicopter that lands in Colombia early in the picture blew out my eardrums.

Finally stealing a boat, riding through a monsoon in a helicopter and taking enough motion sickness pills to knock out a horse, Alex washes up on the shore of the lush land mass but Nim's welcome isn't quite what she envisioned.

Inverted helicopter containing passengers lands on its blades (portrayed in comedic fashion).

He plays the chief executive officer of this house of cards - a house of cards with a helicopter landing pad on its roof.

Big, like you could land a helicopter on the hood.