Helicopter

A Japanese military helicopter carrying two crewmembers crashed in southwestern Japan on Feb. 5, ripping the top floor off a house and setting it on fire, officials said.

Four people died in a collision of a light aircraft and a helicopter near the German town of Phillipsburg.

The helicopter is probably from the rescue service, DPA reported.

Russia's Defense Ministry says that a Russian military helicopter has crashed in Syria, killing both pilots aboard.

In a statement on January 3, the ministry said the Mil Mi-24 military helicopter crashed due to a "technical malfunction" on December 31 while it was flying to the military air base in Hama, Syria.

Serbia is in talks with Russia on buying six Mil Mi-17 multipurpose helicopters and setting up a helicopter repair center, Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said in a live broadcast of the country's national television on Thursday.

Fallen window from a US military helicopter injured a child in a Japanese school, Associated Press reported.

An Indian airforce helicopter crashed in a remote mountain region near the border with China on Friday, killing all seven personnel on board, officials said, quoted by Reuters. 

The Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter was ferrying military officials to a forward post in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, defense spokesman Suneet Newton said.

The Greek air-force released footage of a Super Puma helicopter lifting an injured member of a tanker sailing south of the island of Rhodes on Saturday. The video of the rescue operation shows the helicopter hovering over the deck of the ship and lowering a stretcher with a winch.

A forest fire broke out on Aug. 17 near the Devil's Table in the Ayvalık district of the western province of Balıkesir.

The local directorate of forestry head, Metin Kırcı, told state-run Anadolu Agency that the cause of the fire was not immediately clear and two amphibious airplanes, six helicopters, 36 water sprinklers and three caterpillars were dispatched to the scene.

Two people killed in an aeroplane crash just outside the city of Larisa in central Greece, Thursday morning. The bodies were discovered a little after 3am when a small single engine aircraft from the Larisa air-club went missing.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) presented on June 5 a motion for parliament to research the cause of the deadly May 31 helicopter crash in the southeastern province of Şırnak, which killed 13 soldiers.