US Army helicopter crashes in Florida, 11 troops missing

Seven Marines and four soldiers were missing early Wednesday after an Army helicopter crashed during a night training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle, AP said. The Marines are part of a Camp Lejeune-based special operations group and the soldiers are from a Hammond, Louisiana-based National Guard unit, according to base officials. The helicopter was reported missing around 8:30pm Tuesday and search and rescue crews found debris from the crash around 2am Wednesday. The helicopter was on a routine training mission on a remote swath of beach between Pensacola and Destin.