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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

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Re: Recovery Efforts Suspended

Date: December 11, 1999

United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California

RELEASE 99-093
DECEMBER 11, 1999

MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RECOVERY EFFORTS SUSPENDED

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Search and Recovery operations were suspended at 4:45 p.m. today, more than 51 hours after six Marines and one Sailor from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit were killed in a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter crash.

The service members were declared dead yesterday following Thursday’s crash about 14 miles off the coast of Point Loma.

The U.S. Navy Third Fleet suspended the search pending the results of an aviation mishap board investigation

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