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WASHINGTON - The remains of the walls of the helicopter in 1971 claimed the life of the power outage, four photo-journalists, the Vietnam War was buried Thursday at Newseum in Washington.

The ceremony, many veterans of the Newsroom Saigon, was one of many events on the eve of the opening of the 11th April of this state-of-the-Art-Museum messages near the U.S. Capitol. The Newseum, in the third floor with a hochaufragenden, journalists Memorial glass engraved with the names of journalists killed since 1843 or 1837 on the market, because their work.

The remains of the bodies were dressed in the ground at the foot of the monument, a commemorative plaque as a party in the names of four photographers: Larry Burrows-of-Life Magazine, Henri Huet by The Associated Press, Kent Potter United Press International and Shima Keisaburo Moto Newsweek.

Feb. 10, 1971, remembers that devastating day for a photo journalist, as a South Vietnam, helicopters, four at the same time that seven Vietnamese soldiers was killed by Laos.

Friends and former colleagues of the four photographers said Thursday, a ceremony, the memorial dedicated to journalists Friday.

“She chose to be there,” said Russell Burrows, Larry Burrows son. “It was the largest demonstration, I think, of his profession.” Talking Heritage, Burrows said, “I want to be seen as a sort of family chapel.”

Richard Pyle, bureau chief in Saigon from the Associated Press at the time of the accident, and Horst Faas, Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War photographers, both spoken. Faas Pyle, and co-authors of “Lost In Laos: A True Story of Tragedy, Mystery and Friendship,” a book about the helicopter crash in the year 1996 by the discovery of his situation. The site was, in the year 1998 excavated.

Faas has shared his memories of each of the four photographers and found that their work in Vietnam marked a turning point for photojournalism. “Photographer was now, more than simple additions to the text of Man,” said Faas.

The photographers who died during a massive invasion by Vietnamese troops in the south of the rupture of Ho Chi Minh Road, a major landmark in the North Vietnam-pipes.

Burrows, 44, and the United Kingdom is among the most famous of the Vietnam War photo journalists. Thus, it is also Huet, 43, and heritage of France, was founded by Robert Capa, prices, especially courageous photography. Shima Moto, 34, a Japanese photographer, was for Vietnam as an independent and, since 1965. Potter, 23, and the Americans, was one of the youngest members of the press corps was still UPI Photo Manager’s in Saigon. Despite the obvious risks, the four photographers have the opportunity to South Vietnam, through the establishment of an inquiry Aerial view of the operation.

North Vietnamese Kano kidney to two of the four helicopters to leave.

Sept Vietnamese soldiers died in helicopters, photographers. An explanation of the incident, including pieces of a Leica camera, which were used to Burrows, the army led to investigators, the helicopter has been approved by the photographer. The case was closed by “indirect identification of the group.”

The Newseum image, a few years ago, after the fall of the Web site remains a recovery in the United States and took Joint POW / MIA Accounting Command, to them.

The memorial Newseum replaces and expands clearly on a memorial located in the historic heart previously Newseum, Arlington, Va.

The new building, which will cost $ 439 million, is situated on a block of the election of Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol. It is funded in large part by the Freedom Forum, a non-profit organisation, the group founded by former Gannett Chairman and CEO Al Neuharth.

MONROE, Ga., April 3 (UPI) — A Monroe, Ga., man whose attic was invaded by a falling aircraft wheel said government officials told him it came from a landscaping company’s helicopter.

Mark Brown, who said he was full of questions after the wheel crashed into his attic, leaving a hole in his roof and cracking the drywall in his second-story hallway, and he turned to the Federal Aviation Administration for answers, the Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald reported Thursday.

He said FAA officials told him the wheel fell from a helicopter owned by Forever Green Landscaping Inc. of Loganville, Ga.

Bruce Wright, chief deputy with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, said the wheel was part of a dolly system that is supposed to be removed from the helicopter before flight.

Brown, who coincidentally works at Bulldog Tire shop, said news of the wheel from heaven spread quickly in his community.

“Everyone who comes in asks about it,” Brown laughed. “Everyone who calls asks about it. … When I called my insurance agent, I think they already knew about it. Monroe’s a small town, and news travels fast.”

OSLO, Norway - A Russian helicopter died Sunday while trying, the surfaces of the remote municipal Barentsburg, Spitzbergen, Norway, in the Arctic islands and killed three.

It has been six other people on board the helicopter Mi8, and they were sent to a local hospital for treatment, said Sten Rune Nikolaisen, Norway Rescue Co-ordination Centre Northern Norway.

The cause of the accident was not immediately known, he said by telephone.

Barentsburg was a colony of Russian mining of about 400 people on the Norwegian island of 1920, under a contract that explains the archipelago an international area open to all countries for non-military activities.

The islands of Svalbard, about 500 miles north of the Norwegian mainland.

Two of the survivors are in Norwegian colony near Longyearbyen for treatment within the broader hospital in the town of nearly 2000 people, Gov. Svalbard Pro Sefland said.

“We are aware that the failure occurred in connection with the landing, and that the helicopter was completely crushed,” said Sefland. “We have our own police helicopters and medical personnel,” Dr. Diouf he said.

A failure Norwegian head of investigation on the islands on Monday, Sefland said.

The helicopter belonged to Arktikogul, a Russian company, coal mines in the islands, said Andrei Kolesnikow, of the Russian Embassy in Oslo, Norway, the largest newspaper Verdens Gang.

“The landing of the helicopter was heading Pad, but suddenly, the weather, and helicopters were Bö a storm,” he was quoted.

Kolesnikow added that the helicopter pilots and co-pilot lost their lives, as a passenger, who for mining companies.

In 1996, Barentsburg 141 people were killed when their Tupolev 154 of the transport aircraft collapsed into a mountainside as it was approaching the airport in Longyearbyen

A Russian helicopter died Sunday while trying, the surfaces of the remote municipal Barentsburg, Spitzbergen, Norway, in the Arctic islands and killed three.

It has been six other people on board the helicopter Mi8, and they were sent to a local hospital for treatment, said Sten Rune Nikolaisen, Norway Rescue Co-ordination Centre Northern Norway.

The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

Barentsburg was a colony of Russian mining of about 400 people on the Norwegian island of 1920, under a contract that explains the archipelago an international area open to all countries for non-military activities. The islands of Svalbard, about 500 miles north of the Norwegian mainland.

“The landing of the helicopter was heading Pad, but suddenly, the weather, and helicopters have a storm in August,” said the official.

KIEV, March 27: A helicopter belonging to Ukraine’s border guards crashed off an island in the Black Sea on Thursday and the fate of 12 of its 13 passengers was unknown, the Emergencies Ministry said.

Ministry spokesman Ihor Krol said one passenger aboard the Mi-8 helicopter, a military workhorse in post-Soviet states, had been rescued off Poludenniy island near the port city of Odessa.

“The helicopter was flying from Odessa to Serpent Island,” Krol said by telephone. “It was spotted overturned. There were 13 people on board. One person was rescued. The fate of 12 others remains unknown.”

All but one of those on board were military officers.

The ministry gave no reason for the crash, but a storm warning was in effect for the region.

Serpent Island, a windswept outcrop in the Black Sea, has long been in dispute between post-Soviet Ukraine and Romania.—Reuters

Kiev, March 27 (Xinhua) A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter plunged Thursday in the Black Sea, with 12 of the 13 people on board is missing, a government, “said the spokesman. One person was alive, he said.

“The helicopter is one of the border guards of Ukraine. He was 13. One is to life, while the others are still missing,” Ihor Krol, the Ukrainian Ministry of situations Emergency said the spokesman.

He said the helicopter was flying from an airport located in the Black Sea port of Odessa for the island around 11.06 hours Zmeinyi

The cause of the accident is not yet known.
Xinhua

A Ukrainian helicopter crashed in the Black Sea region on Thursday, killing 13 and leaving a sole survivor, officials of the Border Troops Ukraine’s command said.

The accident occurred in the north-west of the Black Sea, near the mouth of the Danube.

A total of 14 people, 3 planes and 11 passengers aboard the aircraft when the accident occurred. Eleven deaths were considered to border security, personnel, and another person, a civilian was killed.

The identity of the lone survivor, and the 13th person was killed, was not immediately available to the public.

Prior Statements, the total number of people on board the helicopter at 13 and 12, given that the number of deaths.

The border guards Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was, the cost of personnel and two tonnes for deliveries to Zmeyniy Iceland, claiming a rocky outcrop about 60 miles south of the mouth of the Danube.

The flight of the continent to the island of Zmeyniy Mi-8 lasts about 45 minutes. It is not known exactly when and for what reasons, the helicopters was blocked.

The helicopter was shot visible in the shallow water, and had seemed almost reached the island before the beating of water, witnesses said.

Two engine starts and a pair of helicopters to search in the vicinity. Searchers had recovered all 13 bodies, according to a statement from the Marine Ukraine.

One of the helicopters, the only survivors in a hospital in the Ukraine Odesa province, where she was treated for multiple injuries and “very serious condition.”

The Mi-8 is a cargo / passenger aircraft with a maximum capacity of 24 people. Although the obsolete Soviet-type, it is considered very reliable, local standards.

The blocked Cruiser, which was established in 1983 and completely revised in 2006, had any plans for maintenance and checks upstream and has been certified to operate safely, “said Sergei Astakhov, a spokesman for border troops.

Ukraine has not paid on time in recent days with snow even in the plain and temperatures remaining slightly above the freezing point, alternating with sunny weather of 10 to 13 degrees Celsius.

Zmeyniy Iceland is a place where troops from the border station run by the Ukraine on 1.5 square kilometers of rock in Kiev a buttress right to sovereignty in the waters of the region.

Neighbouring countries such as Romania, said the request has merit and border guards of the facility makes sense, given that Zemyniy was an uninhabited island ever since.

NCRI - A helicopter patrol Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (SSF), crashed near Oushan mountains northwest of the Province of East-Azerbaijan, killing five on board, the state Under-run agency IRNA reported Saturday quoted the commander SSF in the province.

“A helicopter SSF died Friday afternoon in the mountains of the city Varzaqan killing five on board,” the SSF commander in the province of East Azerbaijan, Ali Mohammad Nosrati, said IRNA.

Nosrati said that helicopters a mission to fly over the city Varzaqan, but he did establish.

He added that three of those killed in the helicopter crash which was the crew and the other two were officials SSF.

The state-run Fars According to the agency, the two officials identified as Mahmoud Jalali, head of the Preventive Police and Ali Niazi, police chief of the highway in the province of East Azerbaijan.

EDMONTON - Tragödie beeindruckt Familienunternehmen Edmonton hat ein Geschäft für die zweite Zeit in Monaten als Präsident war zwischen fünf Menschen getötet Freitag in einem Flugzeugabsturz - fünf Monate nach dem Tag, nachdem in Vater starb in einem anderen Unternehmen plane.

Reagan Williams, President of Engineering AD Williams, war einer der vier Männer und eine Frau, die starb, als ihre Malibu Piper PA-46 ging in einem dicht bewaldeten Gebiet in der Nähe der Grenze Saskatchewan, außerhalb Wainwright, Alta. Das Unternehmen bestätigt.

Wainwright ist etwa 200 Kilometer von östlich Edmonton.

Zwei weitere Führungskräfte, Chief Financial Officer Phil Allard und Rhonda Quirke, Leiter der Integration Business–Strategien, waren unter den in den Toten Freitag zum Absturz bringen.

Zwei Fliegen Vertragspartner mit der Firma, deren Namen nicht veröffentlicht wurden, auch starb.

Mr. Williams Vater, der Firmengründer Allen Williams, starb im Oktober letzten Jahres in einem Absturz Flugzeugs seines in der Nähe von Cessna Golden, BC, dass. Links nur seine drei-jährige Enkelin, Kate - Reagan’s Nichte - als ein “Wunder Baby” Überlebender.

Die Firma’s Chief Financial Officer, Steve Sutton, starb auch in der Oktober-Crash.

“Wir sind alle über das Erleben dieses wieder”, sagte Rosa Sutton, Mr. Sutton Witwe, am Freitag.

“Ich kann nicht vorstellen mir, dass. Die Williams-Familie, was sie jetzt durch Dirk.”

Das Flugzeug stürzte, Freitag, ging nordöstlich von Wainwright. Das Wrack befand Gerhard gegen Mittag Ortszeit Suche nach einer von RCMP militärischen und der Besatzung.

Reagan Williams, der als der Vorstandsmitglied Edmonton Flying Club, Pilotierung wurde das Flugzeug.

RCMP erstmals wurden zu entdecken, ein Stück of Wracks zu finden. Über eine Stunde halbe später, und 1.5 Kilometer entfernt, Rumpf wurde von der einer Such-und Rettungs-Crew auf einem Hercules-Flugzeugen.

Es gab keinen Hinweis auf einen Fallschirm verwendet wird, oder einem ähnlichen Sicherheits-Ausrüstung.

“Natürlich hat dieses Unternehmen durch eine schwierige Tragödie bereits,” Unternehmens-Sprecherin Sue O’Connor sagte, Trauer hinzufügen Beratung wird in Platz für die Mitarbeiter.

Viele aus dem Büro Mitarbeiter der Innenstadt früh Freitag, the Wartens Stunden nach zu hören, was geschehen war, in den Flieger.

“Es ist offensichtlich unglaublich und schwer unmöglich, sich vorzustellen.”

Eine der Familie Sprecherin Williams, wollen nicht die, geben ihren Namen, sagte Freitag fünf Reisenden waren die auf dem Weg nach Winnipeg Edmonton aus war für das, was angeblich zu einer eintägigen Sitzung Geschäft.

Sie zog aus Edmonton City Centre Airport ca. 7:30 Uhr Ortszeit. Single-Engine Die Sechs—46 Sitzer Piper Malibu verschwand aus dem Radarschirm in der Nähe von Wainwright.

Die Geschichte von der Oktober-Crash Cessna National des Unternehmens mit der Schlagzeilen gemacht dramatischen Rettung von Kate, gefangen war für die fünf Stunden von und wurde Rettungs-Mannschaften kopfüber hängend in die Sicherheit ihres Kindes Platz.

Kate’s wundersame Überleben wurde gesagt haben, hoffen, dass. Trauernde Die Familie.

“Es gibt eine Menge von Unglauben, eine Menge Deja-vu-Erlebnis und viel Leid”, sagte der Familie Sprecherin die.

“Just Traurigkeit für die Familie und eine Gruppe von Menschen, die nur kommen, um gemeinsam von Art einander helfen, durch eine weitere schwierige Zeit.”

Quirke Frau hinterlässt zwei Kinder, 14 und fünf Altersklassen, in Edmonton. Sie war das Unternehmen mit der seit 1996.

On March 27, the Military Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal case on the crash of the MI-8MT helicopter belonging to the State Border Service of Ukraine (article 416 of the Criminal Code), according to acting judge advocate of the Southern Region Serhiy Roha. Cabinet’s press office reports.

An investigative group of the Southern Military Prosecutor’s office has arrived at the occurrence scene. Experts of the Prosecutor’s Office and Government Commission are working on the site, investigating causes behind the catastrophe.

A military helicopter has crashed in north-eastern Iran near the town of Torbat-e-Heidariyeh, killing five soldiers and injuring another 13 people.

State radio reported that a technical fault was to blame for Saturday’s crash.

It also said the helicopter - belonging to the elite Revolutionary Guards - had been on a reconnaissance mission in search of drug traffickers.

There was no information about the type of aircraft, although Iran’s helicopter fleet consists largely of US-made Chinooks.

The authorities say there’s been a worrying increase in the flow of drugs into the country, mainly from Afghanistan - and have stepped up efforts to combat the trade.

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Fredricka Whitfield:, Cnn Anchor: For now, let’s talk about the breaking story that we’re following out of Afghanistan, with a Blackhawk helicopter, an Army helicopter, that is down outside of Bagram Air Base.
CNN’s senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre is on the story — Jamie.

Jamie Mcintyre, Cnn Sr. Pentagon Correspondent: Well, Fredricka, at this point, there’s no indication that this is a result of hostile fire. U.S. Central Command officials are calling it an apparent accident at this point, the crash of a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter about 10 kilometers east of the Bagram airfield in an area called the east training range. There are indications that there are some fatalities as a result of this accident, and some U.S. military personnel injured, but we don’t have the numbers, nor do we have the numbers onboard the aircraft.

We’re given to believe it’s less than half a dozen that were involved in this training mission, but again, we don’t have any firm numbers. It happened just about an hour and a half ago. Again, U.S. military officials say it was a routine training mission for this Blackhawk helicopter, over a training area. No indication of hostile fire, and there are U.S. casualties, including some number of deaths — Fredricka.

Whitfield: All right, Jamie McIntyre from the Pentagon, thank you very much.

Source : edition.cnn.com

CHALOUS, Iran – A helicopter taking a governor and his entourage from the site of a deadly earthquake crashed in the mountains of northern Iran on Saturday, killing everyone on board, official Tehran television reported.

The crash came as army helicopters ferried rescue teams to mountain villages in northern and central Iran cut off by landslides caused by Friday’s quake, in which at least 35 people were killed and 250 were injured.

Those killed in the helicopter crash included Masoud Emami, the governor of Qazvin province, three of his aides and a journalist working for Iran’s state-run television, the report said. It did not say how many others were aboard.

State-run TV reported there were 20 aftershocks following Friday’s quake, including a 4.6-magnitude temblor Saturday morning in the southeastern city of Bam, where a 6.6-magnitude quake in December killed 26,000 people. There were no casualties there Saturday, the report said.

A weak tremor that lasted about five seconds was felt around midday Saturday in the Iranian capital, Tehran, which has a population of about 10 million. Friday’s quake was so powerful it cracked or shattered windows in the capital’s north, more than 60 miles from the hardest-hit villages.

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WASHINGTON — “Al-Qaeda-associated” cells may be behind a recent spike in downed U.S. helicopters in Iraq, a general said Thursday.

Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, said two suspects have been captured in connection with the helicopter attacks. One suspect, he said, admitted involvement in one attack.

Since Jan. 20, insurgents have shot or forced down eight U.S. helicopters, killing 28 troops and civilians. Enemy fire forced down a Black Hawk helicopter north of Baghdad on Wednesday.

Insurgents fire on Army helicopters an average of 100 times a month, Maj. Gen. James Simmons, deputy commander of Multinational Corps-Iraq, said earlier this month. Enemy fire hits helicopters in about 17% of those attacks, he said. Most are able to keep flying.

U.S. officers are studying the recent incidents to determine how best to adjust helicopter flying tactics and are attempting to uncover and destroy the groups behind the attacks, Odierno said.

Earlier this month, Odierno said he didn’t think insurgents had greater access to sophisticated weapons, such as surface-to-air missiles. But insurgents have used similar tactics in recent attacks, suggesting they may be more effectively using machine gun and small-arms fire against helicopters.

“I think we see in a few cases … that there were probably some sort of ambush sites that were set up by some of our foes,” Odierno said in a video conference from Baghdad. “I think they’ve probably been trying to do this for a long time, but my guess is we have a cell out there that’s somewhat effective.” He later clarified his remarks to say there may be several cells.

U.S. forces rely on helicopters more to move supplies and troops as roadside bombs make ground travel more dangerous.

The Army expects to log 400,000 flight hours in helicopters this year, up from 240,000 hours in 2005.

The Army has almost quadrupled its spending this year, from $7.5 million to $29.6 million, on equipment that protects helicopters from missiles and other attacks, Pentagon budget records show. That includes a laser warning system that alerts pilots to threats from the ground.

Changing helicopter flying tactics often means trading one threat for another. Low-flying helicopters are less vulnerable to surface-to-air missiles because they are hidden by terrain and buildings. However, helicopters flying closer to the ground are easier to hit with rocket-propelled grenades or with fire from assault rifles or machine guns.

Source : usatoday.com

A military helicopter has crashed in southern Spain, killing two soldiers and seriously injuring another.

The helicopter came down shortly after take-off near the city of Seville.

It crashed into a road, but there are no reports that it hit any other vehicle.

The causes of the crash are unknown. The helicopter was in the service of a local military hospital.

Source : news.bbc.co.uk

Nairobi - US and allied forces searched on Saturday for 10 crew members still missing a day after two Marine Corps helicopters crashed off the coast of Djibouti, the hub of US counter-terrorism operations in the Horn of Africa.

“We always have hope of finding survivors,” US military spokeswoman Major SA Romano told Reuters by phone from the tiny Red Sea state.

Two crew members rescued by the Djiboutian military on Friday were in a stable condition, said a statement from Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, the US operation set up in Djibouti in 2002.

Italian, French, British forces were also taking part in the search and rescue operation, Romano said.

Source : int.iol.co.za

A RUSSIAN military helicopter has crashed in Chechnya, killing nine Russian soldiers.

The Mi-8 helicopter crashed near the village of Engenoy in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. The two pilots were among five survivors.

The mountains and their foothills provide shelter for the Chechen insurgents who have ben fighting Russian forces for nearly two years. Russian troops, whose ground assault begun in late September 1999, have been unable to drive the rebels out.

Source : telegraph.co.uk

KABUL, Afghanistan – A U.S. military helicopter returning from a mission smashed into the southern Afghan desert Wednesday, killing at least 16 people in the deadliest military crash since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. An Afghan official said most of the dead appeared to be Americans.

The CH-47 Chinook was returning to the U.S. base at Bagram from a mission in the militant-plagued south when it went down near Ghazni city, 80 miles southwest of the capital, Kabul.

“Indications are it was bad weather and that there were no survivors,” said a U.S. spokeswoman, Lt. Cindy Moore. An Afghan official said there were no signs the craft was shot down.

A U.S. military statement said 16 deaths had been confirmed and two other people listed on the flight manifest were “unaccounted for” when the recovery operation was suspended at nightfall.

U.S. officials said the four crew members killed were Americans, but declined to give the nationalities of the passengers. The names of the victims were being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Moore said the transport helicopter was returning from a “routine mission” when controllers lost radio contact. A second Chinook made it safely back to the sprawling base north of Kabul.

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Search teams today recovered four bodies from the wreckage of a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed into a hillside on Ugak Island during a medical mission.

Two other persons aboard the twin-engine HH-3F Sikorsky helicopter are missing, officials said.A search for their bodies will resume on Tuesday.

The helicopter crashed on a slope about 300 feet above sea level late Sunday, Glenn Rosenholm, a Coast Guard spokesman, said.

The helicopter had been traveling to the village of Akhiok to help treat a 21-year-old man with a head injury.

Source : query.nytimes.com

BROADDUS, Texas (AP) — Two people were killed and three others were injured when a U.S. Forest Service helicopter crashed while on a mission to recover debris from space shuttle Columbia.

All five were aboard the chopper when it crashed Thursday in an East Texas forest, said Kim Pease, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Texas Forest Service employee Charles Krenek of Lufkin and Pilot J. “Buzz” Mier of Arizona were killed in the crash.

Injured in the crash were: Matt Tschacher, U.S. Forest Service, from South Dakota; Richard Lange, United Space Alliance at Kennedy Space Center of Florida; and Ronnie Dale, NASAs Kennedy Space Center of Florida. They were being treated at Memorial Medical Center of East Texas in Lufkin; their conditions were not known.

The crash was disheartening for search crews and federal personnel. “It’s very hard for everyone,” said Marsha Cooper, spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service. “It’s such a tragedy in East Texas, after losing the shuttle and the astronauts.”

There were seven forest service helicopters searching for debris in the area Thursday. Department of Public Safety communications operator Tonica Weathers said she did not know of any helicopter searches being called off because of the crash.

The crash site was accessible only from muddy, rut-filled stretches of trail. All-terrain vehicles were brought to the scene to assist emergency personnel.

Late Thursday night, crews were working with a bulldozer to clear a road into the forest. Large spotlights were brought in after dark as officials awaited representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.

The accident happened near Broaddus, about 20 miles east of Lufkin in the Angelina National Forest, in the southern portion of San Augustine County in East Texas. The chopper that crashed was a Bell 407, FEMA public information officer Susie Webb said.

Search crews have been scouring East Texas since the shuttle broke apart Feb. 1 as it re-entered the atmosphere. Seven astronauts were killed. More than 10,000 searchers have recovered about 42,000 pieces of debris.

Source : usatoday.com