chopper

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Watch how this small chopper flown inside a C-130 transport plane was used to rescue the U.S. aviator trapped in Iran after his F-15 was shot down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“The only thing you see is the chopper. Sometimes, you’re rotating because it’s a line, and you just see the chopper going around and around.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

"Five more minutes, and I would have left you," the pilot tells the reporters as they clamber back in, the chopper stuttering up and banking over the town's remains.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

"And no-one went to the spot that the chopper was hovering over until later that day when the police arrived."

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

All told, five members of the Taiwanese team—two with severe frostbite and one already dead—were plucked from McKinley by chopper.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer