JAPAN – 2023/02/23: A Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopter with the US Navy Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM-51, often known as the Warfare Lords, flying close to Naval Air Facility Atsugi airbase. The forty seventh Japanese-American Friendship Pageant is an annual two-day pageant that options static and flying shows by the US Army and Japanese Self-Defence Drive (JASDF) plane. This pageant is held at Yokota airbase in Fussa. (Picture by Damon Coulter/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket through Getty Photographs)
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A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed right into a Southern California bay throughout a coaching train Thursday night time, a spokesperson mentioned.
All six crewmembers survived.
The MH-60R Seahawk crashed within the waters of San Diego Bay shortly after 6:30 p.m., mentioned an announcement from Cmdr. Beth Educate of the Naval Air Drive Pacific Fleet.
“Due to the nature of the training, a safety boat was on location,” the assertion mentioned, including that the crew members have been taken ashore for medical evaluations.
There wasn’t any quick phrase on their circumstances however Navy officers weren’t conscious of any vital of life-threatening accidents.
The crash web site was in Coronado, throughout an inlet from San Diego. The native Hearth Division and the U.S. Coast Guard responded to the scene.
The reason for the crash is underneath investigation.
The plane was from Helicopter Maritime Strike squadron 41. The fleet substitute squadron is predicated at Naval Air Station North Island on the Coronado peninsula. It trains air crews on the MH-60R Seahawk, in keeping with its web site.
The MH-60R Seahawk is the Navy’s fundamental helicopter for anti-submarine warfare however it may carry out all kinds of missions, together with reconnaissance and search-and-rescue operations, in keeping with a Navy website.
