rooftop landing

Helicopter pad arrival

A rooftop landing is the act of setting down an aircraft, typically a helicopter, on top of a building.

Hospitals, corporate towers, and luxury hotels often have designated rooftop landing pads for emergency transport or executive travel: The medevac made a rooftop landing at the trauma center.

In action films, rooftop landings frequently appear in chase or rescue sequences.

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descent · touchdown · urban · skyscraper · aerial · chopper · terrace · highrise · high rise building · extraction · emergency · hover · cityscape · city lights · vertigo · wind · action movie · blades

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landing infrastructure type

rooftop landingrunway landing

Aircraft's ground contact

Family

roof, top, roofs, roofed, roofing, roofer, rooftops, tops, topped

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G