Search parties have found no trace of a helicopter carrying six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers in Nepal.
Two days into an intense search for the crew missing since they did not return from a humanitarian aid mission, search parties have found no trace of their UH-1Y “Huey” helicopter, the Pentagon said.
The helicopter went missing around 7 p.m. Tuesday in an area of dangerous terrain “in the shadow of Mount Everest,” said Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren. Since then, the military’s other aircraft in Nepal, including a pair of Ospreys and the remaining Hueys, have flown during all daylight hours looking for the missing crew.
The search has covered all “known relief routes, all with negative results,” Warren said.
The crew had been delivering humanitarian aid, including rice and tarps, to victims of Nepal’s devastating April 25 earthquake.
