
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 25, 1990                   TAG: 9006250201
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

2 MORE VICTIMS OF CRASH FOUND

The bodies of the remaining two Navy officers missing since their helicopter crashed off the Virginia coast have been recovered, a Navy spokesman said.

"They located them yesterday evening just before sunset," Lt. Russ Greer, a spokesman for the Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Force in Norfolk, said Sunday.

The bodies were take to Portsmouth Naval Hospital, where the bodies of two crewmen found earlier were taken, Greer said.

They have been identified as Lt. Jane T. Paradeis, 26, of Rice, Minn., and Lt. j.g. Jason K. Skubi, 24, of Sandpoint, Idaho.

The bodies found Saturday were identified as Petty Officer 1st Class Norman H. Geisel, 29, of Saint Mary's, Md., and Airman John W. Burkhardt Jr., 21, of Boylston, Mass., Greer said.

Searchers also found additional pieces of the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, which went down at 12:50 p.m. Friday about 6 1/2 miles off Virginia Beach, he said.

The helicopter from the Norfolk-based Helicopter Combat Squadron Eight was flying from the Norfolk Naval Air Station to the USS Detroit, a Sacramento-class fast combat support ship, when it went down within sight of the ship.

The 89-foot-long, twin-engine helicopter is used by the Navy to resupply ships at sea.

The Navy said the cause of the crash is under investigation.

by CNB