Nepal Earthquake: Why Can't Crews Find Missing Military Chopper? Erik Ortiz May 14th 2015,
Crews are continuing the search for a
missing U.S. military chopper and its eight passengers after it
vanished Tuesday somewhere in the cloaked and craggy Himalayan hillside
of Nepal.
But there remains no
contact from the UH-1Y Huey, military officials say, even though the
helicopter was equipped with a GPS device, radio and emergency beacon.
Its unexplained disappearance has left even experienced helicopter
pilots perplexed.
"It's baffling," retired
Army helicopter pilot Jim Weatherill told NBC News on Thursday. "Why
isn't the emergency beacon transmitting a frequency to where they might
be?"
The Huey vanished late Tuesday night following a magnitude-7.3 aftershock
that rocked Nepal earlier that day, killing at least 96 people. The
chopper was on its way to deliver aid in the hard-hit district of
Dolakha, east of Kathmandu. Six Americans and two Nepalese service
members were on board.
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