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Saturday 16 January 2016

Marine Helicopters Collide Off Oahu, Search Under Way

In this 2003 photo, U.S. Marines and their Philippine counterparts helicopters, Navy spokes- one involved in the res- tional Weather Service me-
jump from a US Marines CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter at Ter- woman Agnes Tauyan said. cue,” said a family state- teorologist Matthew Foster
nate in Cavite province south of Manila. The U.S. Coast Guard As the rescue efforts went ment distributed by broth- said. Winds were expected
says two similar Marine helicopters collided off the Hawaiian is- on, about two dozen Ma- er-in-law Anthony Kuenzel to be relatively calm at 10
land of Oahu, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. rines gathered Friday in St. Louis, Missouri. mph or less.
morning on the beach An aunt posted on a Ma- The crash comes less than
(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) at Waimea Bay, a popu- rine Corps Facebook page a year after a Marine Corps
lar surfing spot a few miles that three Marines visited tilt-rotor aircraft crashed
from the search operation. Roche’s parents and re- during a training exercise in
The family of Capt. Kevin ported that he was missing. Hawaii, killing two Marines.
Roche believes he was one A steady rain was falling on The MV-22 Osprey went
of the Marines aboard the the North Shore just before down last May with 21 Ma-
helicopters. daybreak, and rough wa- rines and a Navy corpsman
“We believe the Marines ter conditions were fore- on board.
and Coast Guard are do- cast. A swell approaching In 2011, one serviceman
ing everything they can to the area was to bring dan- was killed and three others
bring Kevin and his fellow gerous waves to beaches injured when a CH-53D Sea
Marines home safely, and and up to 20-foot seas near Stallion chopper crashed in
we are grateful to every- the rescue operation, Na- Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.q

Continued from Front website.
Elaray Navarro, a retiree
The transport helicopters who lives across the street
known as CH-53Es crashed from the beach, said she
just before midnight Thurs- heard two booms late
day, officials said. Thursday that were loud
A Coast Guard helicopter enough to shake her
and C-130 airplane spot- house.
ted a debris field 2 1/2 “I threw my blanket off, put
miles offshore early Friday. my slippers on and ran out-
The debris covered an side thinking it was a car
area of 2 miles (3 kilome- accident,” she said.
ters), Marine Capt. Timothy She expressed concern for
Irish said. the crew as she watched
The choppers are part the pounding surf from a
of the 1st Marine Aircraft beach park in Haleiwa.
Wing at Marine Corps Base The search included Air
Hawaii. Known as Super Force units, as well as a Ho-
Stallions, they are the U.S. nolulu Fire Department res-
military’s largest helicopter, cue boat and Coast Guard
capable of carrying a light cutters, officials said.
armored vehicle, 16 tons of Two Navy ships, the USS
cargo or a team of com- John Paul Jones and the
bat-equipped Marines, ac- USS Gridley, were also par-
cording to a Marine Corps ticipating, along with a
Navy squadron of SH-60

US, Iran to meet on nuclear deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sec- toward implementing the
retary of State John Kerry nuclear deal, reached last
plans to meet Saturday July, which the State De-
with Iranian Foreign Minis- partment said “will ensure
ter Javad Zarif and a top the exclusively peaceful
European Union official to nature of Iran’s nuclear
discuss the progress toward program.”
implementing the Iran nu- Before the deal can be
clear deal. formally implemented, the
Kerry will meet in Vienna International Atomic En-
with Zarif and EU foreign ergy Agency must verify
policy chief Federica that Iranhas complied with
Mogherini, the State De- terms of the deal reached
partment said Friday. among the United States,
“All parties have continued Britain, France, China, Rus-
making steady progress” sia, Germany and Iran. q