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Asleep during a curve. a tractor trailer stuck on the tracks in california. last month a train derailed outside of the station in maine. no one was injured in that. >> the race against time to find the crew of a u.s. military helicopter gone missing. it helped earthquake victims when it vanished from radar. david joins us live on the phone. (speaking on telephone) >> the missing marine helicopter, they havent found any trace of if. the marine corps helicopter was carrying six marines and nationa...

Earthquake victims. its now about 9:30 p.m. in nepal and the search is suspended for the night. so is the search for victims after the second major earthquake in three weeks causing new building collapses and landslides. we get more now on the search for those marines from nbcs katy tur whos in nepal. >> reporter: the search has resumed this morning for the missing huey helicopter like this one carrying six marines and two nepalese soldiers. the chopper suddenly lost radio contact yesterday whil...

Answers now. it is possible that the helicopter simply ran into some trouble and put down in a remote mountain area, and theyre having trouble locating it. we do not know on the other hand if this is a crash situation. what we are told is another helicopter from the indian military was flying in the area at the time. it picked up radio chatter from the american crew that they had run into some sort of fuel problem. we do not know what that fuel problem was. we dont know if the pilot, the america...

Carrying eight people six u.s. marines and two soldiers from nepal is now missing. the hugh we helicopter like the one seen here was on an earthquake relief mission in nepal when the crew radioed there was some kind of fuel problem. this happened amid the chaos and devastation of a second major earthquake in nepal. the magnitude 7.3 quake claimed dozens of lives and destroyed buildings. thanks to cnn global resources we have crews in nepal as well as correspondents and experts across the united ...

Now, an indian helicopter flying in the area reports hearing radio chatter from the americans, that they were having some sort of fuel problem. at that point, three other u.s. aircraft were sent up to try and look for the missing u.s. helicopter before nightfall. they did not find it. they had to suspend the air search during the night, but nepalese military forces on the ground hiked in to the area in hopes of finding something. so far no word. there are two options here wolf that are very diff...

It was at of contact for two hours. apt at that point the pentagon declared the helicopter missing knowing it did not have any fuel left. the question at this hour is this. did the pilot run into a fuel problem and simply put the helicopter down in a remote mountainous area and they cannot get a message out? their communications gear not able to get past the high mountains in nepal or did something more dire happen here. was there some sort of crash. what we do know is there have been several re...

And find these people. >> okay. lets remain hopeful. barbara starr, thank you very much. lieutenant colonel james reece, springboarding off of barbaras point when she talks about imagine youre on this huey, after midnight, its dark mountainous, as she was pointing out. communication can be a challenge. can you walk through and -- and if these reports accurate they could be worried about fuel -- just the challenges there. what you would be thinking as the pilot? >> sure. right now, that altitude ...

Pilot to believe the best thing to do would be go straight ahead. that may have been something. he not have been able to turn the airplane. >> perhaps he thought he still had engine functionality with respect to the second engine if the first went down. >> and i heard that speculation earlier with possible fuel problem where you have an engine fail and shortly thereafter another engine fails. >> we do know this particular airline is a division of a larger airline. they put out a statement that s...

To be something else involved. ive flown over that area, low levels when i was flying 111s in europe. as well as f-16s. thats why i think that something else has to be involved with it. >> like what? >> what do you think? >> well, you dont know if its weather. you dont know if its a fuel problem. contamination in the fuel that had a problem on the other engine. and so there are a host of things that could have been involved. but the 320 is a safe airplane that can fly on single engines. thats wh...

Conversation with the defense. you asked him what military assets were on their way and he says? >> effectively they are not. >> and i for a moment i just felt loss i didnt. i couldnt believe the answer. i said you have got to tell those guys there may not be any help coming. >> and there wasnt any help coming. now the defense attache in libya was lt. colonel keith phillips who says there was a fuel problem in getting air power to libya. but with all the warning, shouldnt the u.s. military have ...