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There have been multiple
There have been multiple prison escape
A prison escape (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture t ...
s where an inmate escapes by means of a helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attribu ...
. One of the earliest instances was the escape of Joel David Kaplan, nicknamed "Man Fan", on August 19, 1971, from the Santa Martha Acatitla in Mexico. Kaplan was a New York businessman who not only escaped the prison but eventually got out of Mexico and went on to write a book about his experience, ''The 10-Second Jailbreak''.
France has had more recorded helicopter escape attempts than any other country, with at least 11. One of the most notable French jail breaks occurred in 1986, when the wife of bank robber Michel Vaujour studied for months to learn how to fly a helicopter. Using her newly acquired skills, she rented a white helicopter and flew low over Paris to pluck her husband off the roof of his fortress prison. Vaujour was later seriously wounded in a shootout with police, and his pilot wife was arrested.
The record for most helicopter escapes goes to convicted murderer Pascal Payet, who has used helicopters to escape from prisons in 2001, 2003, and most recently 2007.
Another multiple helicopter escapee is Vasilis Paleokostas, who on February 22, 2009, escaped for the second time from the same prison.
To thwart attempts of this nature, many prisons have taken precautions such as nets or cables strung over open prison courtyards.
This list includes prisoner escapes where a helicopter was used in an attempt to free prisoners from a place of internment, a prison or correctional facility.
Actual attempts
Escapes in fiction
See also
*List of prison escapes
The following is a list of historically famous prison escapes, and of people who escaped multiple times:
Famous historical escapes
There have been many infamous escapes throughout history:
13th century
* In 1244, whilst imprisoned in the Tower o ...
* List of people who escaped multiple times from prison
*List of prisoner-of-war escapes
This list of prisoner-of-war escapes includes successful and unsuccessful attempts in chronological order, where possible.
Thirty Years' War
*In the beginning of the war Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch's detachment of 8,000 imperial cavalrymen su ...
* Escape tunnel
*Rescue
Rescue comprises responsive operations that usually involve the saving of life, or the urgent treatment of injuries after an accident or a dangerous situation.
Tools used might include search and rescue dogs, mounted search and rescue ...
*Prison escape
A prison escape (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture t ...
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