The plaque says that Lassen, the pilot and aircraft commander of a UH-2A Seasprite helicopter, risked his life “above and beyond the call of duty” during a rescue mission during the Vietnam War.

In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan National Airport, at least two other pilots reported near-misses with ...

From an aviation standpoint, that’s where you have to start separating it.” By that point, helicopter pilots had been dropping water on the flames for about nine hours, but were fighting a ...

Andrew Harnik/Getty Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that the pilots aboard the U.S. Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines plane were wearing night vision ...

Captain S., a helicopter pilot in Squadron 118, who brought home the released hostages, shared his feelings during the operation. "A sense of pain, responsibility, and hope. Pain for the suffering ...

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Bowman said the helicopter pilots were “heroes who paid the ultimate price.” “We need to make sure that we give our people in uniform the resources and training that they need to do their ...

Chief among those initial suspicions: the helicopter pilot who did not see the jet on a collision course, and the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies of his Democratic predecessors.