Helicopters in particular - able to drop vast volumes of water precisely and fly at night - have helped turn ... as close to the flames as possible. Illustration showing California landscape ...

The nighttime firefighting helicopters have played a significant ... but these crews have tools that make the work in night sky easier, like infrared technology to see hot spots.

Andrew Harnik/Getty Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the pilots aboard the Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines plane this week had night vision goggles — and an expert ...

Not much is known about why the helicopter crashed into the plane, but images shared online showed a fiery explosion as the two collided mid-air over the night sky. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

Dan Child and a copilot were coordinating aerial efforts to attack the Palisades fire the night of Jan. 7 when the ... feet per minute in the nighttime sky and were continuing to get pushed ...

From the perspective of the helicopter cockpit, the lights of the incoming American Airlines jet could have also been ...

Related: Air Traffic Controller Asked Black Hawk Helicopter If It Had American Airlines ... "In that environment, the night vision goggles would possibly make it harder to read the sky." Related: 14 U ...

The American Airlines flight was preparing to land at the Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night ... the helicopter happened. CCTV footage shows a flash of light in the sky at ...

The crash killed at least 28 people, with the rest aboard feared dead, after the plane collided with a U.S. Army helicopter ...

When to look: Mid and late January, but best visibility may be the night ... sky, just after sunset: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. (Note: The circled planets are ones that you will ...