3 Men Missing on Eastern Baja Coast
Mexican civil defense teams are searching the remote eastern coast of Baja California for a U.S. pilot and two Mexican government biologists whose helicopter disappeared last week, Mexican authorities said Wednesday.
The helicopter left an airport at San Felipe on April 21 on what was to have been a two-hour flight to observe sheep in the eastern part of the peninsula, but it never returned, officials said.
The pilot is identified as Lloyd Colby of Houston, Tex., and the passengers as Gonzalo Medina and Rafael Rebollar, both biologists with the Mexican federal environmental agency, SEDUE, according to Dee-Dee Castro, an aide to Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Chula Vista).
The search involves aircraft from the Baja state civil defense agency and civilian volunteers from the United States as well, officials said.
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