Missing US Marine Helicopter SPOTTED in Nepal …Update: The Helicopter Crashed – No Survivors

The missing US Marine helicopter was spotted in Nepal today after going missing on Tuesday.
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Nepalese army soldiers unload aid and relief supplies from a UH-1Y Venom on May 11 in the Kavrepalanchowk District, Nepa (Photo: Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Anderson/Marine Corps)

The US Marines were offering assistance to earthquake survivors when it went missing yesterday.
Marine Corps Times reported:

A U.S. military helicopter missing during an aid mission in Nepal reportedly has been spotted, authorities said. But it will take time to reach the site where it has been located in the Tamakoshi region north of the capital of Kathmandu.

The Huey helicopter was carrying six U.S. Marines and two Nepalese soldiers when it disappeared Tuesday during a mission in a remote mountainous region in Nepal, a defense official said.

The utility helicopter from Marine Light Attack Helicopter squadron 469 based at Camp Pendleton, California, was last seen after another helicopter in the area “picked up some [radio] chatter about a fuel problem,” said Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.

“Right now we are hopeful that there was no crash. There has been no [emergency] beacon, no other signs — no flames, no smoke, no hole in the ground — to indicate that there was a crash,” Warren said.

UPDATE: Friday AM – Sadly the helicopter was spotted and all US Marines were killed in a crash.

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