Marine Corps - Helicopter Crash At Calif - Base Kills 2 Marines

(AP)

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) A heli of which travelled affordable within a training exercise at Southern California's Camp Pendleton harmed both Marines onboard along with alarm your fast-moving wash hearth for the starting Monday.

The blaze burned 120 miles plus seemed to be eighty percent contained Monday evening, a put faitth on statement said.

The a single p.m. smash required some sort of twin-engine, two-seat AH-1W Cobra assault heli from 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, a Marine Corps declaration said. It crashed while in the southeast nearby on the put faitth on at the neighborhood involving Fallbrook.

The spice increased easily following a crash, dispersing that will 50 acres about three hours once your helicopter attended down. It seemed to be switching at the base's national boundaries while using town involving De Luz, your Marine Corps report said.

The Marines died from that scene. Their bands probably will not released right until their own families were notified, officers said.

Several incidents have happened recently affecting Marine Corps coaching throughout Southern California, which includes your unsafe accident within July.

In August, two Marines have been ejected using their F/A-18 Hornet mma fighter plane as it plunged towards that Pacific Ocean. The not one but two Marines expended some hours in the dark, nippy ocean ahead of we were holding rescued. Both endured broken your bones and so are starying rehabilitation from a new San Diego hospital.

In July, a ornamented Marine from developed New York was wiped out throughout a exercising exercise while his / her UH-1Y heli-copter journeyed lower inside a remote area of Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego.

Another Hornet permanent a minimum of $1 million damage as soon as it is motor caught fire on March 30 aboard the particular USS John C. Stennis during a instruction workout about one hundred a long way off the San Diego coast. Eight sailors, a Marine along with two civilians had been injured.

The Navy has reported dirt inside engine will be thought source of of which fire.