Coast Guard ends search for 9 missing airmenThe Coast Guard has called off a search-and-rescue mission for nine missing airmen from Thursday's mid-air crash of a Coast Guard plane and Marine Corps helicopter off California's coast, a spokesman said. "We no longer believe there is any chance anybody could be alive. We are moving into a salvage, recovery and investigative phase," Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joseph Castillo said on Sunday. Thursday's crash after sundown in an area set aside for military exercises by the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control , left two chopper pilots and a crew of seven aboard a Coast Guard C-130 transport plane missing in the Pacific Ocean. The wreckage of the C-130 and the Cobra helicopter were found on Saturday, but no signs of crash victims. A Pentagon spokesman on Friday said it was "likely" the missing airmen had all perished. The Coast Guard plane was in the area searching for a missing boater while the Marine helicopter was heading to San Clemente island San Clemente Island An island of southern California in the Santa Barbara Islands south of Santa Catalina Island. , which is controlled by the navy, on a training mission. Six Coast Guard cutters, three US Navy ships and various aircraft took part in the search and rescue mission Noun 1. search and rescue mission - a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them deliverance, rescue, saving, delivery - recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" . The southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Marine Air Wing suspended all flights through the weekend to re-emphasize safety measures safety measures, n.pl actions (e.g., use of glasses, face masks) taken to protect patients and office personnel from such known hazards as particles and aerosols from high-speed rotary instruments, mercury vapor, radiation exposure, anesthetic and after the crash. It was the third accident involving a military helicopter in the region this year. On May 5, two Marines died when their Super Cobra Super Cobra is a 1981 horizontally-scrolling shooter, arcade game. It was developed by Konami from the engine of the popular Scramble (with only a few modifications), and manufactured and distributed by Stern in the U.S.. helicopter crashed in a California forest during a training flight, and five crew died when a Navy HH-60H Seahawk helicopter crashed into the Pacific on May 19. 
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