California IN BRIEF : HALF MOON BAY : Lost Navy Copter Found With 3 Dead
The bodies of three crew members were found in the wreckage of a Navy Sea Stallion helicopter that had been missing for a week, the Navy said. The craft was found about four miles north of the Half Moon Bay airport. The RH-53D left Alameda Naval Air Station for San Diego on a routine flight Nov. 17. Three Naval Air Reserve crew members from the Mine Countermeasures Squadron 19 were aboard the craft. They were Petty Officer Kevin Andrew Johnson, 25, of Walnut Creek; Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Peter Drazek III, 38, of Coronado, and Lt. Christian Gerard Taylor, 32, of Malvern, Penn.
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