Posted on 03/11/2015 3:08:22 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
Edited on 03/11/2015 3:57:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Search-and-rescue crews are looking for seven Marines and four soldiers after an Army helicopter crashed late Tuesday during a routine night training exercise in the Florida Panhandle.
Eglin Air Force Base spokesman Andy Bourland told the Associated Press that the helicopter was reported missing at around 8:30 p.m. Central Time and crews found debris from the crash at around 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Bourland told "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning that debris was found near the Navarre Bridge, which is located on a small strip of land between Choctawhatchee Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. He said that rescuers were having issues with fog and noted that the sun had not yet risen in that part of Florida. The area where the crash happened had been under a fog advisory Tuesday.
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Active Duty ping.
Probably not much hope.
The local Panama City news just showed people on shore picking up pieces of wreckage (which they turned over to authorities). Unfortunately they said that included human remains.
Just passed the scene but visibility is next to nothing. Mobile Command is massive at the boat launch with an equally massive media staging area across the street in the Winn Dixie parking lot. The scene is absolutely surreal in this fog. Never seen anything like it.
So sad.
I was scanning different channels and came across one in which the news babe was reporting on the accident.
She said they were training for a week out of Elgin AFB. They can’t even read the teleprompter right. It is Eglin.
This follows on from the helicopter crash which killed the French actors in South America. I hope there is not a third event.
My daughter flies on aeromedical helicopter evac. The weather this time of year is unpredictable. Another reason why I worry. Prayers up for this crew and their families.
Agreed. Sometimes a crash is just a crash.
Divers found the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in several pieces on the bottom of the Santa Rosa Sound.
http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/2015/03/12/divers-find-missing-army-helicopter/70210458/
It is, but this training wasn't a part of that course. It was MARSOC and an Army National Guard aircrew supporting them.
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