Missing chopper crashed, coast guard says after finding debris

Missing chopper crashed, coast guard says after finding debris

SAGA, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers examine a blade from a rotor believed to belong to a missing helicopter in the Ariake Sea off Saga Prefecture on Dec. 25. A Robinson R44 Raven helicopter went missing Dec. 24 with three employees of charter flight operator SGC Saga Koku aboard.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001219410
  • Registered date
  • 2004/12/25 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2004 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 2003 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 722.43(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Seaweed farming in Japan

    Seaweed farming in Japan

    Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows colorful seaweed nets in offshore waters in Saga, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 26, 2022. Seed planting in the Ariake Sea started across three Japanese prefectures the same day.
      Steel beam removed from pool at Fukushima plant

      Steel beam removed from pool at Fukushima plant

      FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 20, 2012, shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s operation employing a remote-controlled crane to remove a steel beam from a spent nuclear fuel pool in the No. 3 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture. The 7-meter steel beam weighing 470 kilograms dropped into the water-filled pool in September when the plant's operator TEPCO used a similar crane to remove debris from the upper portion of the building.
        Boat capsizes in East China Sea

        Boat capsizes in East China Sea

        AMAMI, Japan - At Naze port on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in the early hours of March 24, 2012, officials of the Japan Coast Guard carry a fisherman who was rescued the previous night with another crew member after their boat capsized off the island in the East China Sea. Two more fishermen were saved on the following morning, but two others remain missing.
          Boat capsizes in East China Sea

          Boat capsizes in East China Sea

          AMAMI, Japan - At Naze port on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in the early hours of March 24, 2012, officials of the Japan Coast Guard carry a fisherman who was rescued the previous night with another crew member after their boat capsized off the island in the East China Sea. Two more fishermen were saved on the following morning, but two others remain missing.
            Crew members rescued from stranded freighter

            Crew members rescued from stranded freighter

            IWAKI, Japan - Crew members of the Panamanian-registered cargo ship Sea Ace are rescued by a Japan Coast Guard helicopter after the vessel was stranded on a beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2010.
              Probe of deadly copter crash

              Probe of deadly copter crash

              TADOTSU, Japan - The debris of a Japan Coast Guard helicopter is recovered from the sea off Sanagi Island in Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2010. Five people aboard were killed in the crash.
                Probe of deadly copter crash

                Probe of deadly copter crash

                TAKAMATSU, Japan - Investigators examine the retrieved debris of a Japan Coast Guard helicopter in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2010. The chopper went down into the Seto Inland Sea off Sanagi Island, leaving four dead and another missing.
                  Missing chopper crashed, coast guard says after finding debris

                  Missing chopper crashed, coast guard says after finding debris

                  SAGA, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers examine a blade from a rotor believed to belong to a missing helicopter in the Ariake Sea off Saga Prefecture on Dec. 25. A Robinson R44 Raven helicopter went missing Dec. 24 with three employees of charter flight operator SGC Saga Koku aboard. (Kyodo)
                    Debris from missing helicopter found in Ariake Sea

                    Debris from missing helicopter found in Ariake Sea

                    FUKUOKA, Japan - Debris from a U.S.-made Robinson R44 Raven helicopter (of type shown in photo) was found Dec. 25 in the Ariake Sea off Saga Prefecture. The helicopter went missing Dec. 24 with three people aboard.
                      JCG recovers 2 bodies in wreck of small plane

                      JCG recovers 2 bodies in wreck of small plane

                      KYOTO, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) salvaged a small private plane that crashed in the sea May 4 off Amino, Kyoto Prefecture, recovering the bodies of two men May 10. The plane with the two on board crashed shortly after takeoff for acrobatic flight training from Tajima Airport in neighboring Hyogo Prefecture.