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February 21, 2002 Posted: 5:52 PM EST (2252 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A helicopter carrying 12 U.S. Army troops crashed over water Thursday in the southern Philippines, the Pentagon said.
A search-and-rescue effort was underway Thursday. There were no immediate signs of survivors, the Pentagon said.
The MH-47 Chinook went down 2:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. EST) just off the coast of the south-central city of Dumaguete, about 120 miles northwest of the southern island of Mindanao.
There was no indication the helicopter was brought down by hostile fire, the Pentagon and Philippine military officials said.
The helicopter was flying in tandem with another U.S. Army Chinook at the time of the crash, according to U.S. and Philippine military officials, who were meeting in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga about the crash.
The chopper was on a routine trip from the southern island of Basilan -- a stronghold of Muslim rebels -- to the islet of Mactan in the southern-central Philippines, where the United States has an air base, the Pentagon said.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/02/21/helicopter.crash/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A helicopter carrying 12 U.S. Army troops crashed over water Thursday in the southern Philippines, the Pentagon said.
A search-and-rescue effort was underway Thursday. There were no immediate signs of survivors, the Pentagon said.
The MH-47 Chinook went down 2:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. EST) just off the coast of the south-central city of Dumaguete, about 120 miles northwest of the southern island of Mindanao.
There was no indication the helicopter was brought down by hostile fire, the Pentagon and Philippine military officials said.
The helicopter was flying in tandem with another U.S. Army Chinook at the time of the crash, according to U.S. and Philippine military officials, who were meeting in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga about the crash.
The chopper was on a routine trip from the southern island of Basilan -- a stronghold of Muslim rebels -- to the islet of Mactan in the southern-central Philippines, where the United States has an air base, the Pentagon said.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/02/21/helicopter.crash/index.html
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