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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: helicopters

helicopters stories: 2 news summaries

UK Colonel's Death Raises Fury at Home

He's killed by roadside bomb after warning about lack of choppers

Oct 31, 09 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain's newspapers are up in arms today over the revelation that a commander got killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan just weeks after warning his superiors they weren't doing enough to prevent such deaths. Lt. Col. Rupert Thorneloe complained in an email that troops didn't have enough helicopters and... More »

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Afghanistan • IED • roadside bomb • British troops • Afghanistan war • helicopters • Rupert Thorneloe

 6 Killed as
 Medical Choppers
 Collide 

Helicopters crash as both near Flagstaff hospital with patients

Jun 30, 08 4:50 AM CDT
(AP) - Six people were killed yesterday when a medical helicopter ferrying a patient crashed into another chopper with a patient as they headed for the same northern Arizona hospital. Three people in each chopper—including the pilots and the patients—were killed and a nurse was critically injured. An explosion in... More »

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Arizona • accident • hospital • helicopters

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