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Photo Release

Date: July 7, 2010

Contact: Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen

(907) 321-4505

Photo Release: Coast Guard search for helicopter crew, wreckage at James Island, Wash.

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ASTORIA, Ore. - A Coast Guard 25-foot response boat crew from Station Quillayute River, Wash., along with local emergency response personnel search the water near James Island, Wash., for crew members and wreckage from a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, which crashed July 7, 2010. The crew of the helicopter was returning to Sitka, Alaska, when the Coast Guard lost contact with them. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Nathan Littlejohn.

ASTORIA, Ore. - A Coast Guard 25-foot response boat crew from Station Quillayute River, Wash., along with local emergency response personnel search the water near James Island, Wash., for crew members and wreckage from a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, which crashed July 7, 2010.

The crew of the helicopter was returning to Sitka, Alaska, when the Coast Guard lost contact with them.

Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Nathan Littlejohn.

 

ASTORIA, Ore. - A Coast Guard 25-foot response boat crew from Station Quillayute River, Wash., along with local emergency response personnel search the water near James Island, Wash., for crew members and wreckage from a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, which crashed July 7, 2010. The crew of the helicopter was returning to Sitka, Alaska, when the Coast Guard lost contact with them. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Nathan Littlejohn.

ASTORIA, Ore. - A Coast Guard 25-foot response boat crew from Station Quillayute River, Wash., along with local emergency response personnel search the water near James Island, Wash., for crew members and wreckage from a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, which crashed July 7, 2010.

The crew of the helicopter was returning to Sitka, Alaska, when the Coast Guard lost contact with them.

Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Nathan Littlejohn.

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