Team recovers helicopter from the Arctic Ocean

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The sunken Canadian Coast Guard helicopter which crashed Sept. 9 — killing a University of Manitoba researcher — was recovered Wednesday from the Arctic Ocean, the Transportation Safety Board announced this morning.

A team made up of members of the Canadian Coast Guard’s two research vessels — the CCGS Amundsen and CCGS Henry Larsen — along with ArcticNet and the TSB had been been working to recover the helicopter since its discovery Monday afternoon.

The wreckage was raised to the surface, where it was hoisted onto the deck of the Amundsen and then transferred to the Larsen. It is now on its way to Resolute, Nunavut.

The wreckage will then go to a location where the TSB can conduct its full investigation.

U of M scientist Klaus Hochheim died in the crash on a routine flight checking ice conditions ahead of the ship. Canadian Coast Guard pilot Daniel Dube and Amundsen commander Marc Thibault also died in the crash.

Their helicopter suddenly lost contact with the Amundsen while flying back to the ship in clear weather.

Post-mortem examinations have suggested the three men died from “cold water immersion,” Cathy Menard, chief coroner of the Northwest Territories, said last week.