Search operations continued Monday for seven members of the Japanese Navy who went missing in two helicopter accidents during anti-submarine training late Saturday night in the Pacific Ocean.
Japan's Kyodo News reported that the two SH60-K helicopters, which the Defense Ministry believes likely collided, each had four people on board, and one person was confirmed dead.
The Ministry of Defense plans to analyze two flight recorders recovered from the area where the search operation is taking place. The two helicopters lost contact at 10:38 pm (1338 GMT). And 04:11 pm (1404 GMT). On Saturday in a row, the Maritime Self-Defense Forces received a distress message at 10:39 p.m. The crash site was located in the waters about 270 kilometers east of Torishima Island in the Izu Islands chain, where the water depth is about 5,500 meters.
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