2015 Eglin Air Force Base helicopter crash

On March 10, 2015, a U.S. Army UH-60 helicopter crashed off the coast of the Florida Panhandle during a training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base, killing all eleven people on board. The helicopter was reported missing during foggy conditions at 8:30 PM. The helicopter was assigned to the 1-244th Assault Helicopter Battalion in Hammond, Louisiana.

Passengers and crew
There were eleven people on board the helicopter at the time, of whom seven were U.S Marines and four were U.S Army soldiers. The Marines on the helicopter were assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Many media outlets have reported that the people on board the helicopter are presumed dead, but Eglin Air Force Base officials declined to confirm this.

Search
Debris from the crash was found on March 11 at 2 AM around Okaloosa Island. The ongoing search for the passengers, which is focused on waters east of Navarre, Florida, has been hampered by heavy fog in the area. On the morning of March 11, a spokesman for the Eglin Air Force Base said that human remains had been found in the area of the search. As of March 12, the bodies of two soldiers on board the helicopter had been recovered.

By March 17, 2015, all 11 bodies from the crash on Navarre Beach had been recovered and identified.