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Navy declares five sailors dead after helicopter accident

By Mike Brest
Published September 5, 2021 3:38pm ET
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Navy declares five sailors dead after helicopter accident
An MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter flies by the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut during a replenishment-at-sea evolution in the Arabian Sea on Dec 4, 2012. (U.S. Navy photo) 

The Navy has declared the five sailors still missing after last week’s helicopter crash dead.

The U.S. 3rd fleet announced on Saturday that the rescue operations have shifted to recovery operations after an MH-60S helicopter that embarked aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln crashed into the sea Tuesday afternoon — roughly 60 nautical miles off the coast.

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