Larquette shouted, as if she were willing the flagging helicopter to reach the edge.
The six fishing boats were stopped and taken into custody at about the same time the helicopter reached Garden Key.
The helicopter had already reached the Land Rover and was hovering at a height of a hundred feet.
Unfortunately, the pirates had already taken over the command of the vessel once the helicopter reached its vicinity.
There was no indication of anything unusual when the helicopter reached the southern edge of the city.
The first helicopters reached the southern coast as revealed by the uncoded position reports.
American officers said that their helicopters had reached the crash site in minutes from a base at Taji, but found the insurgents already gone.
The helicopter should have reached a height of 1000 metres.
You'd need eight or ten days or even longer to get out of the blizzard to a place where those helicopters could reach you.
However, helicopters could reach and leave the area above the building within seconds, thus inflicting less health damage to the personnel on board.