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Honduras crash { December 12 2002 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44363-2002Dec12.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44363-2002Dec12.html Honduras Crash Kills Five U.S. Soldiers By Freddy Cuevas Associated Press Writer Thursday, December 12, 2002; 8:49 AM TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras –– Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a U.S. military helicopter crash in central Honduras, the U.S. military said. The American Black Hawk helicopter from Soto Cano Air Base crashed at about 8:55 p.m. Wednesday while on routine training, said Lt. Col. Bill Costello, a spokesman for U.S. Southern Command in Miami. "Right now we are classifying it as a training accident," Costello said. "It is being investigated." Five crew members were aboard and have not been found, he said. But Arnold Espinal Gutierrez, a Honduran police spokesman near the site of the crash, told Radio HRN on Thursday the "the bodies of all the helicopter's occupants were recovered earlier this morning. All of them are U.S. military personnel." Espinal said the helicopter departed at 8:14 p.m. from San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city and 110 miles north of Tegucigalpa, the capital. He said it crashed on a mountain near the town of Santa Cruz de Yojoa some 85 miles north of Tegucigalpa. It was headed to the U.S. base in Palmerola in central Honduras, he said. Espinal said the cause of the crash was not known, but that there had been heavy rains in the area over the past three days. © 2002 The Associated Press

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