BRITAIN: A British Royal Navy Lynx helicopter with four crew on board last night crashed off the coast of Cornwall, the Ministry of Defence said last night.
The helicopter, based at RNAS Culdrose near Helston, Cornwall, was sent out on a search and rescue mission off the Cornish coast earlier in the evening.
Contact with the Lynx was lost when it was 15 miles south east off the Lizard peninsula.
Three other military helicopters and a French Falcon aircraft were scrambled to search for the missing helicopter and crew, said a spokesman for RAF Kinloss in Scotland, which is co-ordinating the rescue.
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Lifeboats were launched last night to help in the search but there was no information on the missing crew.