11. A rescue operation was quickly organized and landed by helicopter, under fire, later Sunday night on the hilltop where the missing soldier was last observed. 12. All the helicopters landed safely at Bagram Air Base, the sprawling hub of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan. 13. Albanian police said two army and four civilian helicopters had landed in Gjirokaster to reinforce the garrison. 14. But helicopters could easily land there. 15. Complicating problems, he said, was the dense fog that made it difficult for medical evacuation helicopters to land and take off. 16. He ran to the roof and saw that helicopters had landed nearby. 17. Helicopters landed as Chinese troops watched during a first set of exercises off Fujian Province in China earlier this month. 18. Helicopters landed on the roof of The Post building to ferry copy to presses in Maryland and Virginia. 19. Helicopters landed in the fields, and soldiers and dogs emerged. 20. It was the only place a helicopter could land. |