Crew Member - Coast Guard Helicopter Crashes Off Alabama Coast Reuters

By Kelli Dugan

MOBILE, Alabama Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:18am EST

MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crashed off Alabama's coast in Mobile Bay on Tuesday giving one crew member injured as well as about three missing, a spokeswoman said.

Petty Officer Second Class Elizabeth Bordelon claimed your MH-65 Dolphin crashed simply just after 8:30 p.m. area time period near Point Clear, Alabama.

Bordelon, communicating through New Orleans, said the actual trip come through the Aviation Training Center in Mobile. She couldn't promptly confirm that tinnitus of the rescued team fellow member transmitted to some nearby medical center and also if the injured and also missing were being Coast Guard service members. Names in the crew affiliates never have already been launched awaiting notification with relatives.

A response cutter from Dauphin Island along with a pair of more MH-65s through New Orleans are already dispatched to assist inside the search, she said.

A Mobile County Sheriff's Flotilla crew, a strong HU-144 twin-engine aircraft in addition to an Alabama Marine Resources route are also activated.

The bring about on the crash has not been immediately known.

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