Human remains have been found after a Black Hawk helicopter carrying eleven Marines and soldiers went down during a training mission off the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday night.
The seven Marines and four Army crew were on board a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that took off from an airport in Destin, Florida and joined a second Black Hawk for the training exercise along a stretch of beach from Destin to Pensacola, ABC News reported.
The Black Hawk went missing at around 8:30 p.m. amid bad weather conditions with poor visibility near Eglin Air Force Base over the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles east of Pensacola, according to Reuters.
A Coast Guard vessel recovered debris from the helicopter including its tail rotor around 2 a.m., Reuters reported. Helicopter debris and human remains also washed ashore near Eglin the following morning, CNN reported.
The missing 11 servicemen were involved in a amphibious operations training exercise that include inserting and extracting Marines from the water by helicopter, according to CNN.
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