FILE - In this March 19, 2017, record photo, released by the U.S. Navy, an MH-60S Sea Hawk chopper prepares to onshore connected the formation platform of the craft bearer USS Nimitz successful the Pacific Ocean. The remains of 5 radical and the wreckage of a U.S. Navy chopper that crashed successful the Pacific Ocean disconnected California person been recovered, the Navy said successful a connection Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. An MH-60S helicopter, akin to the 1 pictured, its 2 pilots and 3 different sailors were mislaid successful an Aug. 31 mishap astir 69 miles (111 kilometers) disconnected the San Diego coast. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Ian Kinkead/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

FILE - In this March 19, 2017, record photo, released by the U.S. Navy, an MH-60S Sea Hawk chopper prepares to onshore connected the formation platform of the craft bearer USS Nimitz successful the Pacific Ocean. The remains of 5 radical and the wreckage of a U.S. Navy chopper that crashed successful the Pacific Ocean disconnected California person been recovered, the Navy said successful a connection Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. An MH-60S helicopter, akin to the 1 pictured, its 2 pilots and 3 different sailors were mislaid successful an Aug. 31 mishap astir 69 miles (111 kilometers) disconnected the San Diego coast. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Ian Kinkead/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

SAN DIEGO – The remains of 5 radical and the wreckage of a U.S. Navy chopper that crashed successful the Pacific Ocean disconnected California person been recovered, the Navy said successful a connection Tuesday.

The MH-60S helicopter, its 2 pilots and 3 different sailors were mislaid successful an Aug. 31 mishap astir 69 miles (111 kilometers) disconnected the San Diego coast.

A salvage squad aboard the multipurpose vas HOS Bayou made the betterment from a extent of astir 5,300 feet (1,615 meters) connected Friday, the Navy said.

The Bayou arrived astatine Naval Station North Island successful San Diego Bay connected Sunday and the quality remains were sent to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, for identification.

The chopper was operating from the craft bearer USS Abraham Lincoln erstwhile its rotor deed the formation platform and the craft fell into the ocean. One unit subordinate was rescued instantly aft the crash.

A hunt for immoderate different survivors went connected for astir a week earlier the Navy declared the missing sailors dead.

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They were Lt. Bradley A. Foster, 29, a aviator from Oakhurst, California; Lt. Paul R. Fridley, 28, a aviator from Annandale, Virginia; Naval Air Crewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class James P. Buriak, 31, from Salem, Virginia; Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Sarah F. Burns, 31, from Severna Park, Maryland; and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Bailey J. Tucker, 21, from St. Louis, Missouri.

The Navy said the probe of the clang is continuing.

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