Officials say it is unlikely the missing workers could have survived.

Rescue officials say the mission is now one of recovery.

A spokesman says the search ended after 34 hours, adding that it has gone beyond the 24-hour life expectancy time for someone in a survival suit.

One body was recovered and one man was rescued. He is listed in critical but stable condition in hospital.

The case now goes to the Transportation Safety Board.

The lead investigator says plans are already underway to lift the helicopter to the surface some time next week.

It is about 120 metres down and a remote submersible equipped with cameras will be sent to the ocean floor, possibly as soon as today, to examine the wreck.

Canadian chopper crash search called off

The McDonnell Douglas 600N, with three people on board, made a forced landing because of engine trouble.

The three people were able to exit the helicopter on their own and were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Aerial images showed the chopper sitting on the edge of the surf, just north of the nuclear plant. The aircraft was significantly damaged, authorities said.

The helicopter was going from the airport in Long Beach, California, to the Brown Field airport in San Diego, said Vince Bond, the Border Patrol’s public information officer.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the case.

Helicopter goes down near California nuclear plant

The general, Fazaludin Sayar, one of four regional commanders, was in charge of the entire west of the country.

His helicopter, an Mi-17, hit bad weather in the morning and went down in the Adraskan District of Herat Province, the Defense Ministry said. All 12 others aboard also were killed, it said. The helicopter had been headed to a neighboring province, Farah.

All of the bodies were brought to Herat, the provincial capital, said Rauf Ahmadi, a police spokesman.

In a telephone call to a reporter in southern Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, asserted that militants had shot down the helicopter.

But a Defense Ministry spokesman, General Mohammad Zahir Azimi denied the report, saying the area of the crash had no insurgent activity.

The helicopter was flying low because of bad weather when it hit a mountain, he said.

After years of neglect, the Afghan Army’s aging helicopters are in bad shape. Forbidding mountainous terrain, lack of roads coupled with insurgent attacks on ground convoys have prompted the local and international authorities to rely heavily on the use of helicopters and other aircraft for movement.

In the deaths of the two British soldiers, the British Defense Ministry said they were killed during an operation against insurgents near Geresh in Helmand Province.

Southern Afghanistan is the center of the Taliban-led insurgency, where thousands of additional troops from the United States are expected to join the fight this year.

Helicopter crash kills a senior Afghan general – International Herald Tribune

Chief of police Hok Lundy and General Sok Sa Em were passengers in a helicopter that came down shortly after it took off Sunday from Phnom Penh airport, ministry of interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak said.

“In the helicopter there was a pilot, a co-pilot, the national police chief and the deputy commander of the military. All four died,” Khieu Sopheak said.

Khieu Sopheak said the helicopter came down in southeastern Svay Rieng province.

“The reason for the crash was bad weather. There was a heavy rain,” he added.

He said radio contact had been lost 15 minutes after it took off from Phnom Penh airport at around 7:20 pm (1220 GMT).

Hok Lundy, head of the country’s police for over a decade, had been routinely criticised by international organisations for alleged human rights abuses and corruption within his force.

Hok Lundy was also accused of involvement in politically motivated killings and drug trafficking.

Human rights groups protested a decision to allow him a visa to the United States last year after the State Department refused him a visa in 2006 due to allegations he was involved in trafficking prostitutes.

Arrangements were being made for a traditional Cambodian funeral for the police chief, Khieu Sopheak said.

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One Iraqi soldier was killed and two American and two Iraqi soldiers were injured, military spokesman Lieutenant Patrick Evans said in an e-mail to Reuters.

“Two UH-60 Black Hawks have crashed while landing at Combat Outpost Ford in (the northern Baghdad district of) Adhamiya about 8:55 p.m. Baghdad time (1755 GMT) this evening,” he said.

“The situation is under control. Emergency services are on the scene. It is unknown how many were on board at the time of the incident. Enemy fire is not suspected at this time.”

A Reuters television cameraman in the Sha’ab district of northern Baghdad, near Adhamiya, said he saw two helicopters circling overhead. The engine of one of them made a thudding sound as it lost altitude and crashed.

The cameraman said he heard an explosion after the impact, followed by the sound of shooting.

Iraqi police confirmed the crash. They gave no further details, but said clashes had broken out between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near the crash site.

But the U.S. military said the crash had taken place at its base and it was not aware of any clashes in the area.

The incident was the second major U.S. military helicopter crash in Iraq in weeks. Last month, seven U.S. soldiers were killed when a transport helicopter crashed in southern Iraq in an incident the military blamed on mechanical failure.

(Reporting by Mohammed Abbas and Peter Graff; Writing by Peter Graff)

Two U.S. helicopters collide in Baghdad | Top News | Reuters

A male helicopter pilot and three female passengers were killed when the helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Bungle Bungle National Park about 1:00pm (0600GMT), police said.

Police said the accident happened 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) from the Bellburn air strip near Argyle, the site of a major diamond mine and a popular destination for international tourists.

Further details about the crash victims were not available. Police said air crash investigators were at the scene.

The crash sparked a large bushfire but emergency authorities said it was not threatening any population centres and they hoped to have it under control soon.

Among the victims were an American and a Briton, said Hanan Moussa of the United Arab Emirates’ General Civil Aviation Authority.

Also killed were two Indians, a Pakistani, a Filipino and a Venezuelan, Moussa said.

The Bell 212 helicopter crashed Wednesday on the deck of an oil rig, then broke up and fell into the sea, said a spokesman for AeroGulf Services — which operated the chopper.

A fire broke out aboard the rig, located about 43 miles (70 km) off the coast of Dubai. The fire was quickly contained, the AeroGulf spokesman said.

Authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the crash.

Dubai: Helicopter hits oil platform, 7 dead – CNN.com