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Accidents: Japan: Two military helicopters crashed with eight passengers

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Japan: Two military helicopters crashed with eight people on board

Two Japanese Navy helicopters may have collided. photo

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The Navy helicopters were participating in an anti-submarine warfare exercise and may have collided over the Pacific. One inmate is dead and seven others are missing.

Two Japanese Military helicopters with a total of eight crew members crashed over the Pacific during a nighttime exercise, according to the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo. One inmate was rescued but later declared dead, Defense Minister Kihara Minoru said, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK. The seven other crew members are missing. They are being searched for.

According to the ministry, contact with the two SH-60K marine helicopters was lost on Sunday night. They were therefore involved in an anti-submarine warfare exercise. The ministry did not rule out that both aircraft, each with four people on board, may have collided in mid-air in an area east of the Izu Islands. According to Minoru, Japan’s self-defense forces discovered debris floating at sea that is believed to have come from the helicopters. The Izu Islands stretch south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean.