Seven people are still missing after the crash in the Pacific last month.
Japanese investigators have concluded that a collision during a night-time drill caused a deadly crash involving two Japanese navy SH-60K Seahawk helicopters last month, the country’s defence minister said.
The two SH-60K reconnaissance helicopters carrying a total of eight crew lost contact late on April 20 during night-time training east of the island of Torishima in the Pacific Ocean, about 370 miles south of the capital, Tokyo.One of the total of eight crew on the two helicopters was found in the water and later pronounced dead, and the search for the seven missing, as well as the aircrafts’ fuselages, has continued since then.
The helicopters’ flight data showed a “rapid and huge impact” simultaneously at the same location, evidence of the collision, he said.The two helicopters were believed to have come too close during what was a drill on anti-submarine warfare, involving multiple helicopters hovering and lowering sonars into the water. Some media reports have said an anti-collision alarm system was not used, possibly due to training for harsh environment conditions.
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