US Air Force helicopter crashes in England

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January 7, 2014 at 3:00 PM

A Pave Hawk helicopter, military personnel and emergency services attend the scene of a helicopter crash on the coast near the village of Cley in Norfolk, eastern England

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

Local authorities stand near a U.S. military helicopter that landed near the scene after a U.S. Pave Hawk helicopter slammed into the coastal marshes of eastern England during a training mission, in Salthouse in Norfolk, England, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Authorities in England have cordoned off the flooded marshes to remove four U.S. Air Force crewmen who died in the helicopter crash. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES

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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)

A Pave Hawk helicopter, military personnel and emergency services attend the scene of a helicopter crash on the coast near the village of Cley in Norfolk, eastern England

A Pave Hawk helicopter, military personnel and emergency services attend the scene of a helicopter crash on the coast near the village of Cley in Norfolk, eastern England January 8, 2014. British police said on Wednesday they would be working with the U.S. Air Force and others to find out why a U.S. military helicopter crashed on the coast of eastern England, killing all four crew on board. The helicopter, a Pave Hawk assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath air base, was performing a low-level training mission along the Norfolk coast when it went down in marshland on Tuesday evening. The helicopter pictured is not the crashed helicopter but a second helicopter, which had been taking part in the same training exercise as the one that crashed. (REUTERS/Toby Melville)

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A U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in the coastal marshes of eastern England during a training mission on Tuesday night, killing all four crew members aboard, officials said.

The helicopter crashed at about 6 p.m. local time near Salthouse on the Norfolk coast, a statement from the U.S. Air Force said. The aircraft was based at the nearby Royal Air Force station in Lakenheath, Suffolk County, which hosts USAF units and personnel. (AP)

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