15 May 2015

Marine helicopter found


Deepak Adhikari and Nikhil Kumar have a Time article about a lost chopper, found:
The wreckage of a Marine helicopter on an aid mission in Nepal, reported missing hours after the Himalayan nation was hit by a 7.3 magnitude temblor on Tuesday, has been found near the country’s border with China, the US Pacific Command said.
The wreckage of the UH-1Y Huey helicopter, which was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers when it was declared missing, was found in an area approximately eight miles north of Charikot, in Nepal’s northeastern Dolakha district. “An assessment of the site is ongoing, and a thorough investigation will be conducted,” Pacific Command spokesman Major David Eastburn said in an emailed statement.
Earlier, Laxmi Prasad Dhakal, a spokesman for Nepal’s home ministry, told Time that the chopper had been found in Dolakha’s Kalinchok village. “It crashed on a slope near a Hindu temple,” Dhakal said.
Reuters, meanwhile, quoted Iswori Prasad Paudyal, the top civil servant in Nepal’s defense ministry, as saying that three bodies had been found in the wreckage of the chopper. “The search for others is continuing. As the helicopter has broken into pieces and totally crashed, there is no chance of any survivors,” he told the news agency.
Rico says wow, like totally?

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