UK police investigate deadly helicopter crash site
- 10 years ago
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British police said on Wednesday (January 8) that they would be working with the U.S. Air Force and others to find out why a U.S. military helicopter crashed on the coast of eastern England, killing all four crew on board.
Wreckage, including munitions, was spread over a wide area of the crash site in difficult terrain of the North Norfolk marshes.
A second helicopter, which had been taking part in the same training exercise as the one that crashed, landed at the site and was still there.
The helicopter, a Pave Hawk assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath air base, was performing a low-level training mission along the Norfolk coast when it went down in marshland on Tuesday evening (January 7).
The cause of the crash, which occurred in a nature reserve near the village of Cley next the Sea, was not known. The area is about 130 miles (210 km) northeast of London.
Some local people heard the helicopter
British police said on Wednesday (January 8) that they would be working with the U.S. Air Force and others to find out why a U.S. military helicopter crashed on the coast of eastern England, killing all four crew on board.
Wreckage, including munitions, was spread over a wide area of the crash site in difficult terrain of the North Norfolk marshes.
A second helicopter, which had been taking part in the same training exercise as the one that crashed, landed at the site and was still there.
The helicopter, a Pave Hawk assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath air base, was performing a low-level training mission along the Norfolk coast when it went down in marshland on Tuesday evening (January 7).
The cause of the crash, which occurred in a nature reserve near the village of Cley next the Sea, was not known. The area is about 130 miles (210 km) northeast of London.
Some local people heard the helicopter