Navy divers recover helicopter wreckage
A team of Navy deep-sea divers using an unmanned underwater vehicle has recovered the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed during a training exercise off the coast last month, killing its four-man crew.
The chopper, which sank 3,600 feet in waters about 50 miles offshore, was raised Wednesday, said Navy spokesman Landon Hutchens.
The MH-60S helicopter, based at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, was on a training mission off the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard when it went down off San Clemente Island.
The bodies of three crew members lost with the helicopter were brought to the surface Feb. 16.
The fourth crew member died after being pulled alive from the water after the crash Jan. 26.
Hutchens said the cause of the crash remained under investigation.
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