TOKYO, May 2 (Xinhua) — Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) has recovered the sixth physique apparently from the accident involving a lacking GSDF helicopter off the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, native media reported.
The physique was found and pulled from the seabed on Monday when a personal salvaging firm moved the obvious wreckage of the UH-60JA helicopter underwater in preparation to salvage it, Jiji Press cited the GSDF as saying.
The physique seems to be that of an grownup male, and his clothes means that he was a GSDF member. The GSDF is working to establish the physique, it mentioned.
Five our bodies that had been recovered following a deep-sea dive on April 16 have already been recognized, it added.
On April 6, the chopper with 10 GSDF members onboard disappeared from radar in what’s believed to be an plane accident at about 18 km northwest of an airport in Okinawa’s Miyakojima Island.