Navy Crash Kills 2; 2 Rescued, 2 Missing
From Times Wire Reports
Two crew members were plucked from the water alive but two others died and two were still missing Thursday after a Navy helicopter crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast, a Navy spokeswoman said. The MH-53E mine-sweeping helicopter was on a routine training mission with six people on board when it went down about 15 miles off the coast southeast of Corpus Christi, operations specialist Ryan Hernandez said. The two injured crew members were found floating in a raft near the wreck site.
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