Less than an hour after her last rooftop landing, Shelby dropped the heliporter gently onto the top of my building.

Lindenberg was practicing simulated urban high-rise rooftop landings at an off-site pad on top of a small mountain near the Los Angeles Zoo in the hills above Hollywood.

Three police helicopters were also deployed to report on conditions and assess the feasibility of a rooftop landing or of special rescue operations.

Six of the victims have been forced from elevators to rooftops, rooftop landings or their apartments.

I wondered if Marsha's rooftop landing had been heard below.

Han reflected that things had to be pretty bad if the idea of flying a spacecraft in a rainstorm through congested airspace to a rooftop landing sounded like fun by comparison.

He assaulted a 10-year-old on the rooftop landing of her apartment building about 4:50 P.M. on Thursday, they said.

He forced her to the stairwell and raped her on the rooftop landing, the police said.

Threatening her with a knife, he forced the child into an elevator and took her to a rooftop landing, where he raped her, the police said.

Helicopters have, for the most part, also been limited to rural areas, which has meant no traffic reports, news gathering or rooftop landings for business executives.