DENVER (KDVR) — A high altitude rescue involving a Blackhawk helicopter occurred Wednesday morning at Snowmass Lake, after a 17-year-old was reported to be suffering from possible altitude sickness ...

A high-altitude rescue effort involving multiple agencies and five helicopters unfolded over two days on the second-highest mountain in both the Sierra Nevada range and the state of California. On the ...

With the MH-139A Grey Wolf, the Air Force is getting a more credible, agile, and survivable helicopter for missions tied directly to the nuclear deterrent.

A skier survived an 800-foot fall while skiing a steep, exposed couloir in the Eastern Sierra Nevada on Saturday, prompting a high-altitude helicopter rescue, according to officials. The accident ...

The pilots of a Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Washington Reagan National Airport in January likely didn’t know how high they were flying or how close they were to an ...

In terms of general cruising altitude, the California Aeronautical University reports that a jet airliner will typically cruise at an altitude of up to 42,000 feet. For an Airbus A320 and A321, for ...

The chopper was well above the 200-foot limit at the time of the Jan. 29 crash that killed 67 people Six months after an Army helicopter crashed into an American Airlines passenger plane near ...

The achievement follows the company’s earlier high-altitude record in 2023, when it lifted 30kg at 19,024 feet at Umling La ...