Coast Guard Plane Hits Helicopter at San Clemente Island
Military helicopters and ships scoured the waters off San Diego on Friday morning for any trace of nine people involved in a mid-air collision between a Coast Guard plane and a military helicopter hours earlier.
But after nearly 12 hours of searching, rescue teams had reported no signs of any survivors.
Seven people were aboard the Coast Guard’s C-130 plane and two were flying in the Marine Corps’ AH-1 Cobra helicopter when the two aircraft crashed at 7:10 p.m. Pacific time, officials said. They were flying 15 to 25 miles east of San Clemente Island, a narrow strip of land off the southern California coast used by the Navy for training exercises.
