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MARINES: Pair from El Toro killed as helicopters collideFROM 1nore,Maj. S.P. Toth of Irvine, Maj. Warren E. Jones of Laguna Hills and Staff Sgt. P.L. Gauthier of San Juan Capistrano.Merrill said most of those aboard the two aircraft were Marine Corps reservists.Olin Briggs, a spokesman for the Fallon Naval Air Station, said four Marines were in one helicopter and five were in the other. Schroeder and Tutt were in the craft carrying four people.Schroeder, a former reserve officer who went to active duty, is survived by her husband, a former Marine sergeant, and four children. Her husband declined to talk about the crash Saturday.Tutt was in the Marine Corps reserves, and was carrying out routine duties, • which involve one weekend a month and two weeks each year.The Sea Knight is the military’s primary troop carrier. About 355 of the twin-rotor banana-shaped helicopters are in service. The Marine Corps considers the Sea Knight a reliable helicopter with a solid safety record, Maj. Ron Stokes, a Marine spokesman in Washington, said in an earlier interview.• Last year, there were four major crashes of Sea Knights, in which 17Marines were killed. One of the crashes involved a Tustin-basedhelicopter that slammed into a fire tower in the Cleveland National Forest, but the four Marines aboard suffered only minor inju? ries. ;In 1987, there were three fataP crashes of Orange County-based Sea Knights, involving flights witi night-vision goggles. ^The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Sun, May 28, 1989
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