“The minister is safe. He had already left the airport by helicopter when the attack happened.”
Zahir Azimi
“He was obviously not a very good pilot because he dumped the helicopter when he got out of the facility,”
Robert Crowder
“I'm hoping technology will allow us to use the PDA as monitors for real-time video. When a helicopter is following a suspect, we want our ground unit to see what our air units see.”
Captain Randal Quan
“Finally at around 5 a.m., we heard firing and the noise of a helicopter. When the kidnappers saw the government troops moving in, two of them who were armed with Kalashnikovs, held the rifles above their heads and then put them down on the ground. The soldiers arrested the kidnappers and took them to the helicopter.”
Maura Tonetto
“A helicopter from Port Elizabeth was dispatched and it picked me up along the way. When we arrived, she had already been darted but was waking up.”
Bool Smuts
“When I saw the helicopters, I figured they probably wouldn't find me, but it gave me something to concentrate on. I fell asleep later from the exhaustion and jet lag, and when I awoke, I noticed that the helicopters were searching in a different spot. I immediately tried to swim to that area, and pretty much just chased the helicopters all night. Unfortunately, they flew faster than I could swim.”
Patrick Hannon
