By SYLVIA HUI and LOLITA BALDOR
Undated image made available by the US Air Force Tuesday Jan. 7 2014 of a USAF HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter of the same type as one which crashed at about 6 p.m. local time Tuesday near Salthouse on the Norfolk coast of eastern England . The aircraft, assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, and based at the Royal Air Force station in Lakenheath, Suffolk County, which hosts U.S. Air force units and personnel, was on a low-level training mission when the crash occurred. (AP Photo/ US Air Force Lakenheath)
Britain Helicopter Crash
BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE- Emergency services at Salthouse, near to Cley-next-the-Sea, North Norfolk, after an American military HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, part of the 48th Air Wing of the US Air Force based at RAF Lakenheath, crashed with the loss of four lives, during a training mission outside Cley-Next-The-Sea Tuesday Jan. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Ben Kendall, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE
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LONDON (AP) — Authorities in England have cordoned off flooded marshes to remove four U.S. Air Force crewmen who died in a helicopter crash.
The Pave Hawk helicopter slammed into the coastal marshes of eastern England during a training mission. The military says the helicopter crashed at about 6 p.m. local time near Salthouse on the Norfolk coast.
The military worked Wednesday with local authorities to cordon off the site and hope to remove the bodies later in the day.
Bernard Bishop, a Norfolk Wildlife Trust warden, says conditions are difficult because the marsh flooded twice in recent weeks.
The aircraft was based at the nearby Royal Air Force station in Lakenheath.
The names of the crew will be released after families are notified.
