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A 27-year-old man suspected of shining a high-powered green laser at a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter during a street takeover in Paramount was taken into custody, police announced Tuesday.

Jo Ellis was not flying the helicopter. The Army identified the Black Hawk crew as Ryan Austin O’Hara, Andrew Loyd Eaves and Rebecca M. Lobach.

The pilots of the US Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines Group Inc. regional jet near Washington last week were likely wearing night-vision goggles at the time of the accident.

Dr. Kamin Samuel, the first African American woman to be a helicopter pilot in the US Navy, joins Lisa Dent. Dr. Samuel ...

“The pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly mid air collision with an American Airlines flight at Reagan National Airport has been identified as Chief Warrant Officer Joe ...

We knew better,” he recalled. Hamilton is part of fewer than 2% of black military combat helicopter pilots who served in Vietnam. “The Tuskegee Airmen, there were approximately 1,000 pilots.

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois and a former Army helicopter pilot, also noted the questions surrounding the safety system. "What we don't know ... whether or not the helicopter ...

but Flexjet has a long history of safety and requires its helicopter pilots to have at least 3,000 hours of flight experience. The Sikorsky helicopters also require two pilots instead of one.

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters it appears based on the cockpit voice recorder that the helicopter pilot was wearing night vision goggles. She also said the helicopter had been ...