World | Nepal US Helicopter Missing in Nepal Marine chopper was providing earthquake relief By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted May 12, 2015 1:00 PM CDT Copied US soldiers unload Huey helicopters from a US Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III after it landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) A US military helicopter providing humanitarian assistance to earthquake victims in Nepal has gone missing, reports CNN. The Pentagon is providing the barest of details for now, saying only that the chopper with the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469 went missing near Charikot, which was one of the hardest-hit villages in today's massive aftershock. NBC News is reporting that six US Marines and two Nepalese soldiers were aboard. Read These Next 11 people hurt in a "brutal act of violence" in Michigan. We knew Letterman would pipe up about Colbert eventually. Now we know why Ghislaine Maxwell may have opened up to the DOJ. A parent's nightmare, in a white cardboard box. Report an error