US Navy helicopter crashes off San Diego coast, 5 missing

SAN DIEGO — Search and rescue operations are underway aft a U.S. Navy chopper crashed disconnected the seashore of San Diego Tuesday afternoon.

According to the officials, the clang happened astir 4:30 p.m. section clip Tuesday, astir 60 nautical miles disconnected the seashore of San Diego.

The MH-60S chopper “embarked aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) crashed into the oversea portion conducting regular formation operations.”

The hunt and rescue operations impact the Coast Guard and Navy.

The Navy said that 1 idiosyncratic had been rescued and that the cognition is ongoing.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, 5 radical are inactive missing.

This communicative was primitively published by Zac Self connected Scripps presumption KGTV successful San Diego.