The helicopter was carrying five service members and left from Nevada.
FILE Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is shown on Aug. 25, 2023, in San Diego. San Diego County sheriff’s search teams were looking for a Marine Corps helicopter reported overdue early Wednesday, Feb.
7, 2024. A Marine helicopter that went missing late Tuesday in a mountainous area of East County has been located by searchers, but Marine officials haven’t released any information about its five crew members. A statement from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing said the aircraft was located by civil authorities near Pine Valley at 9:08 a.m. Wednesday. “The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing is managing search and rescue efforts through the Wing Operations Command Center and using ground and aviation assets to locate the aircrew in coordination with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and multiple federal, state and local agencies,” the statement said. Earlier, a Cal Fire spokesperson said drones from the U.S. Border Patrol were going to be used to search for the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, along with hikers and personnel on all-terrain vehicles and utility task vehicles in snowy, rugged terrain. The search for the aircraft began around 2:20 a.m. after Cal Fire San Diego received a report that the military helicopter was overdue and missing. Crews on three fire engines and an ambulance launched a search based on the aircraft’s last known location, a rugged mountainous area north of Interstate 8 and east of Kitchen Creek Road near Fred Canyon, but the chopper wasn’t found, Cal Fire spokesperson Mike Cornette said.The missing Marines are assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. They were flying from Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nev., to Miramar when the aircraft was reported overdue, a Marine spokesperson said. “We made access to the coordinates, but it was snowing outside and difficult to access,” Cornette said. “We searched around different locations there and went as far as we could on different roads, but it was really snowy and wet and muddy.” After the initial search, crews pulled back and called for more resources to look for the aircraft southeast of Pine Valley.The CH-53E Super Stallion is a heavy-lift helicopter used to transport troops and equipment that also can fit on amphibious warfare ships. In April 2018, four Miramar-based Marine helicopter crew members were killed when a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter crashed about 15 miles west of El Centro during a training mission. In that instance, the helicopter had flown out of the Marine base in Twentynine Palms to practice landings in unimproved zones when it crashed. In 2020, families of the Marines who were killed sued the makers and manufacturers of aircraft parts.Click to print Ex-Antioch cop, charged with violent civil rights violations, ‘confined to a wheelchair’ with serious injuriesKurtenbach: Vegas mayor says A’s plan ‘does not make sense’, suggests they stay in OaklandHotel deals implode in Bay Area and California as economy turns murkyMore rain is coming to the Bay Area, but it won’t overwhelm like weekend stormPrince Harry leaves U.K. after brief visit with father, night in hotel, snub by William The stakes are high: Florida Supreme Court to hear arguments this week on whether residents will vote on abortion
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