American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2012 – An
investigative team from the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command arrived in
Alaska yesterday to investigate an apparent aircraft crash site in the state’s
Knik Glacier area, according to a JPAC news release issued today.
On June 10 an Alaskan Army National
Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew discovered what appeared to be an
aircraft crash site while conducting a routine training mission, the release
said.
Following additional search and rescue
missions by Joint Task Force-Alaska and the Alaska National Guard at the
suspected crash site, JPAC forward-deployed a five-person team to further
survey and assess the site and develop recommendations for potential recovery
operations in the future, according to the release.
With full knowledge and cooperation of
local military units and governmental agencies in Alaska, the team will
investigate the site for about three days, searching for any evidence that may
positively correlate the aircraft wreckage to a known incident, the release
said.
Falling directly under the U.S. Pacific
Command and employing more than 500 joint military and civilian personnel,
JPAC, based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, continues its search for
the more than 83,000 Americans still missing from past conflicts. The ultimate
goal of JPAC, and of the agencies involved in returning America’s heroes home,
is to conduct global search, recovery, and laboratory operations in order to
support the Department of Defense’s personnel accounting efforts.
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