Hawaii: Army helicopter with five on board crashes off Kaena Point

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Army helicopter with five on board crashes off Kaena Point
By Star-Advertiser staff
August 16, 2017
Updated August 16, 2017 4:24am
    ASSOCIATED PRESS / MARCH 8

The U.S. Coast Guard and the Honolulu Fire Department are searching this morning for five crew members of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that went down off Oahu’s Kaena Point late Tuesday.

Coast Guard officials in Honolulu received a call at 10:08 p.m. from Wheeler Army Airfield stating that they lost communications with one of their UH-60 Black Hawk air crews. The Coast Guard launched a rescue operation and issued an urgent marine broadcast,

“A debris field was spotted near Kaena Point by the Coast Guard Hercules and Army Black Hawk aircrews at 11:28 p.m. Tuesday. Responders are currently searching for the five missing aircrewmen,” the Coast Guard said in a news release.

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