Seven Marines and four soldiers crashed while training aboard a Blackhawk helicopter at Eglin Air Force Base.
The seven Marines and four soldiers whose helicopter crashed during a training mission near Eglin Air Force Base in Florida are all presumed dead.
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed the tone of the search and rescue, which began early Wednesday morning, had shifted and few now expected survivors. Sara Vidoni, a military spokeswoman for Eglin, meanwhile, said human remains had washed ashore, The Associated Press reported.
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It's not clear why the crash occurred, but officials in the area said weather could have been a factor, Fox News reported.
Andy Bourland, a spokesman for the Florida Panhandle base, said crews first found debris from the crash around 2 a.m., hours after the actual wreck occurred, AP reported. The names of the crash victims have not yet been released, pending notification of family.
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The Marines aboard the Blackhawk were part of a special operations group based in Camp Lejeune, N.C., while the soldiers came from a National Guard unit out of Hammond, La., Fox News reported.
The chopper went down on a beach located between Pensacola and Destin that's owned by the military and used as a test site.
