The helicopters plucked hundreds of people from floodwaters in New Orleans.

He was one of a handful of people who helped carry her up more than a dozen flights to the roof, where a helicopter plucked her to safety.

An Italian helicopter plucked him off the mountain.

A helicopter plucked three inmates from a state prison yard amid of gunfire today.

The helicopter plucked him out of the sea five minutes later.

Then, shortly after dawn on Sunday, May 9, weather permitting, a helicopter will pluck the shrouded and caged statue off the dome and gingerly lower her 287 feet to the east Front Plaza.

A helicopter plucked 14 of the ship's 16 Rumanian crewmen from a lifeboat.

Those who could held on to the upper branches of the cypress and pecan trees, singing and praying, until helicopters could pluck them to safety.

The helicopter plucked Killick from the prison's exercise yard and avoided a shower of bullets fired by prison guards.

Earlier, helicopters had plucked people and pets from car tops and trees.