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8 January 2014 Last updated at 17:38 GMT

US Navy helicopter crashes off Norfolk, Virginia

The MH-53E Sea Dragon is used to search for seaborne mines and also for heavy-lift missions

A US Navy helicopter with five people on board has crashed off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia.

Search and rescue operations are under way and it is not known if anyone on the US Navy MH-53E was hurt.
US Coast Guard officials said they received a report at 11:30 (16:30 GMT), reports the Virginian Pilot newspaper.
In a bizarre coincidence, the incident comes a day after another US military helicopter crashed in the county of Norfolk, England, killing four people.
Tuesday's crash was HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter belonging to the US Air Force.
US officials said the aircraft had gone down on Wednesday 18 nautical miles (33km) east of the coast.
Local media report that four people have been rescued from the water.

Norfolk, Virginia is at the centre of a region important to the US military, including Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval complex in the world.

One dead in Navy helicopter accident off Virginia

By Tom Watkins, CNN

January 8, 2014 -- Updated 1952 GMT (0352 HKT)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Another person from the crew of five is missing, the Navy says
• The downed helicopter is an MH-53E; the water temperature is 41 degrees
• The MH-53E carries no weapons, and has two pilots and a crew of one to six

(CNN) -- One person died and another was missing after a Navy helicopter carrying a crew of five made an emergency water landing off Virginia Beach during a routine training operation, the Navy said Wednesday.

The fatality appeared to have been among the four crew members of the MH-53E Sea Dragon who were rescued and taken to a hospital with unspecified injuries.