4 bodies recovered from Marine chopper crash in California

The bodies of four crew members killed when their Marine helicopter crashed during a training mission in the Southern California desert have been removed from the crash site, authorities said Wednesday. The crew members were recovered late Tuesday and taken to a coroner’s facility, said Deputy Coroner Derrick Lindberg with the Imperial Valley Sheriff’s Office. The Marine Corps will take custody of the bodies to conduct autopsies, he said. The CH-53E Super Stallion went down Tuesday afternoon in a desert area just outside El Centro, near the U.S.-Mexico border.