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Plane, military chopper collide:

SAN DIEGO u Investigators were trying Friday to determine why a Coast Guard airplane on a nighttime search for a missing boater collided with one of four Marine Corps helicopters flying in formation to deliver troops to a training exercise on a military island off Southern California. The collision occurred minutes after civilian air traffic controllers told the Coast Guard C-130 pilot to begin communicating with military controllers, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor. All seven people aboard the C-130 and the two-person crew of the Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter remained missing late Friday.

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