Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trailing only 300 yds. behind the observation chopper and flying slightly lower were two similar but fully armed AH-6s. They carried Gatling-like machine guns that could fire 4,000 7.62-mm bullets a minute. Their 2.75-in. rockets also carried a killing punch. The trio of choppers moved toward the tiny flotilla...
...Bernsen ordered the choppers to halt the Iranians' continued seeding of the waters. The strafing resumed until the Iran Ajr was disabled, its stern on fire. Six hours later in the light of dawn the SEALs from the Guadalcanal scrambled up the hull of the crippled ship. They found no one alive. Three bodies had been left behind by the fleeing crewmen amid a scene of destruction caused by the chopper assaults. Windows were shattered and huge gouges pocked the hull and cabin. Offices and other rooms had been ransacked in a hasty effort by the Iranians to destroy papers...
...situation at the embassy. Later, FOG members rented trucks in Tehran for the rescue team that was to be flown into Iran by helicopters supplied by the Navy. All for naught: the mission was scrubbed in April 1980 because of a helicopter malfunction at the landing site, and one chopper crashed into a cargo plane...
Five other men aboard the chopper were rescued...
...scene in Twilight Zone: The Movie was meant to be a powerful climax: Actor Vic Morrow slogging across a river with a child under each arm as bombs exploded and a helicopter hovered overhead. Instead, the chopper crashed, killing Morrow and the two children and resulting in the first criminal trial of a film director for an accident on a movie set. Los Angeles Prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino charged Director John Landis and four others with involuntary manslaughter. After an emotional nine-month trial, the jury last week acquitted all five defendants. "The jury trial is America...