Helicopter ambulance crashes into sea off Japan, patient among 3 dead

Japan helicopter crash: A medical transport helicopter crashed into the sea off the coast of southwestern Japan on Sunday, killing three people including a patient, while three others were rescued, the Japan Coast Guard said. The aircraft was transporting an elderly patient from an airport in Nagasaki prefecture to a hospital in Fukuoka when it went down over the sea. The incident prompted a large-scale search and rescue operation involving two coast guard aircraft and three patrol vessels.

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