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Officials closed the state park at Kaena Point while the search was underway. Kaena is a remote spot northwest of Honolulu where Oahu\u2019s northern and western coasts meet to form a small peninsula. The park\u2019s sandy coastline is home to a seabird colony and endangered Hawaiian monk seals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Coast Guard plane, two helicopters and several boats were being used in the search. The Army and Marine Corps joined the effort, as did Honolulu fire and ocean safety personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two Black Hawk crews were conducting training between Kaena Point and Oahu\u2019s Dillingham Airfield northwest of Honolulu when communications were lost, officials said. Clouds and a few showers were in the area at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The soldiers were training at night to maintain the skills they need to do their jobs, Kellogg said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur aviation assets, as well as all of our soldiers, train at night. It\u2019s what we do,\u201d he said. They need these skills to accomplish their wartime mission, Kellogg said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two helicopters are elements of the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade based in Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n The UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-bladed, twin-engine utility helicopter manufactured for the Army by Sikorsky Aircraft starting in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 3,000 Black Hawk aircraft are in service around the world, according to Sikorsky\u2019s parent company Lockheed Martin. The U.S. Army owns 2,300 of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In April, one crew member was killed and two others were injured when an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed onto a golf course in Maryland during a routine training flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2015, 11 crew members were killed when an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the water off Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A multi-agency team scoured the ocean off Hawaii on Wednesday for five soldiers aboard an Army helicopter that went down during a nighttime training exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":16,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2817],"class_list":["post-14061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"BG2AO4XHKJAG5HBK7BR6VI3OME","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-army\/2017\/08\/16\/coast-guard-army-helicopter-reported-down-off-hawaii\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n