Northern Cape police say a learner pilot could have been alone in the helicopter that crashed into the Vaal river near Kimberley yesterday.

MOSCOW: A private helicopter with five people on board crashed into a large reservoir in the Urals mountains region of Russia Saturday evening, killing at least three, authorities said.

Four people were killed this afternoon when helicopters from two Phoenix television news stations crashed.

BOISE, Idaho, July 24, 2007 (ENS) - A helicopter carrying water to firefighters in the Klamath National Forest crashed Monday morning, killing the pilot, U.S. Forest Service officials said. The pilot, whose identity was withheld until the family can be notified, was under contract to the Forest Service and was not a government employee.

Public safety: Chopper chashes near McCall, 2 injured

(AP) Three Bolivian soldiers and a Venezuelan sergeant died Thursday when an air force helicopter crashed in central Bolivia, police said.

Suspected Wind Gust Caused Skid To Touch Ground. Flight instructor Michael Coleman and student Talal Alajmi were believed to be hovering about three feet up in a 1987 Bell 206 (type shown above) preparing for takeoff when one of the skids contacted the ground causing the aircraft to roll.

ULAN BATOR - A helicopter on a firefighting mission has crashed in northern Mongolia, killing 14 people and critically injuring four of the eight survivors, the Mongolian government said on Monday. The helicopter, a Russian-made Mi-8, crashed into a forest glade on Thursday and split in two on impact.

A helicopter ferrying passengers to Sierra Leone's main airport crashed, bursting into flames and killing at least 20 people, local radio stations and a witness at the airport reported.

A Philippine military helicopter crashed in the northern province of Mountain on Sunday due to bad weather, but the accident led to no fatality, a spokesperson of the Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) said.