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KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — A Black Hawk helicopter commandeered by the Taliban after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan crashed during a training session at the weekend, killing two pilots and a crew member, the defense ministry said. The incident occurred Saturday on the campus of the country’s defense university in the capital Kabul. The Black Hawk crashed due to “a technical problem during a training exercise”, the ministry said, adding five crew members were […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines will buy 32 new Black Hawk helicopters for more than $620 million, the defence secretary said Sunday, in the nation’s latest big-ticket purchase to upgrade its ageing military capability. For the past decade, Manila has been trying to modernise its run-down military equipment featuring Vietnam War-era helicopters and World War II naval vessels used by the United States. The first of the 32 S-70i Black Hawks from a Polish […]
by Jalees Andrabi Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — A helicopter carrying India’s defence chief General Bipin Rawat crashed on Wednesday, the air force said, with a government minister at the scene saying at least seven people were dead. Rawat is India’s first chief of defence staff, a position that the government established in 2019, and is seen as close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 63-year-old was travelling with his wife […]
by Lucie AUBOURG Agence France Presse It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA’s helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn’t ready to retire. Given its stunning and unexpected success, the US space agency has extended Ingenuity’s mission indefinitely. The tiny helicopter has become the regular travel companion of the rover Perseverance, whose core mission is to seek signs of ancient life on Mars. “Everything is working […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — NASA has delayed by at least several days the first flight of its mini-helicopter on Mars after a possible tech issue emerged while testing its rotors, the US space agency said Saturday. Ingenuity’s trip, which is to be the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, was set for Sunday but is now on hold until at least April 14. A high-speed test of the four-pound (1.8 kilogram) helicopter’s […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, NASA intends to prove it’s possible to replicate the feat on another world. Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft that arrives at the Red Planet on Thursday, the small Ingenuity helicopter will have several challenges to overcome — the biggest being the rarefied Martian atmosphere, which is just one percent the density of Earth’s. – Ultralight – It might […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he wanted to completely decommission all Huey helicopters in the Philippine Air Force’s inventory because of their frequent involvement in fatal crashes. He also said that he wanted to procure six or seven new helicopters for the Air Force in light of the recent chopper crashes that had killed soldiers, and injured several more including top police officers among them former Philippine National Police chief Archie Gamboa […]
(Eagle News) — The pilot-in-command of the Bell 429 which crashed in San Pedro, Laguna on March 5, 2020, and which caused severe injuries to two police general leading to the death of Police Major Gen. Joevic Ramos has been charged administratively for his failure to conduct proper safety and risk assessmnet procedures before take-off. This was after the results of the probe of the Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) Bell 429 which had […]
(Eagle News) — A Philippine Air Force helicopter helped in transporting food supplies to far-flung barangays in Benguet. Residents in the far-flung barangays of Kibungan, particularly in barangays Badeo and Tacadang, appreciated the effort of the provincial government of Benguet in reaching them amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In this report by Eagle News Service correspondent Freddie Rulloda, the soldiers from the Philippine Air Force started preparations at dawn and loaded almost a thousand […]
Other official conscious, PNP chief says (Eagle News)–One of the police generals who were critically hurt in the helicopter crash in Laguna in March remains in a coma, Philippine National Police Chief Archie Gamboa said. Gamboa, who also figured in the crash, made the revelation about Police Major General Jose Maria Ramos in a radio interview on Wednesday, April 22. He said Police Major General Mariel Magaway, on the other hand, was already conscious. “Actually […]
(Eagle News) — Police Major Gen. Jose Ma. Victor “Jovic” Ramos, the Philippine National Police director for comptrollership, is still fighting for his life and in critical condition as he is being resuscitated by doctors after sustaining injuries from a helicopter crash, according to the PNP. A general with the family clarified that Ramos is still being treated at the Asian Hospital where he was transferred early this morning. PNP acting spokesperson Gen. Benigno […]
https://youtu.be/sGYFfVRJb-k Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Pinangunahan ni Deputy Chief for Operations Police Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar na tumatayong commander ng Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) “Bell 429” ang ocular inspection sa crash site sa Laperal Compound sa San Pedro Laguna. Kasama nya si Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM) director Police Major Gen. Elmo Francis Sarona mga imbestigador ng Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), at Aviation Security […]
