Search resumes for Thai air force helicopter with 3 aboard

BANGKOK – Rescuers in Thailand are searching for an air force helicopter a day after contact was lost during heavy rains.

Radar contact with the Bell UH-1 helicopter with three crewmen aboard was lost Saturday afternoon and an initial search was suspended due to the rains.

Air force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Pongsak Semachai said Sunday that the helicopter was on a mission to resupply a radar station in Chanthaburi province, 215 kilometres (134 miles) east of Bangkok.

It began its mission at a base in Lopburi, about 150 kilometres (93 miles) northeast of the capital.

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