1. BRITISH helicopter heroes described last night how they braved shell fire to rescue wounded war victims from the besieged Bosnian town on Srebrenica. 2. FOUR British helicopters are being sent to former Yugoslavia as air ambulances, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday. 3. A British helicopter flew Sankoh to Lungi Airport, which is held by British paratroopers, where he was transferred to safer police custody. 4. Several times a week, U.S. or British military helicopters land at the Jalalabad airport with strongboxes carrying cash for the drug eradication program. 5. The IRA has a number of surface-to-air missiles, a constant threat to British helicopters on patrol. 6. Passengers from the MS Romantica boarded lifeboats or climbed aboard British helicopters, which brought them to a nearby cruise ship, the Princessa Victoria, officials said. 7. A British helicopter crashed in the Adriatic Sea while on a training flight Sunday, killing four of the five crew members aboard, officials said. 8. A British military helicopter crashed Saturday near the Northern Ireland border. 9. A British helicopter carrying seven crew members crashed ouside Pristina on Monday, a spokesman for the NATO-led Kosovo peace force said. 10. A British helicopter rescued her. |