Frantic search for US airman as Navy chopper crashes in Arabian Sea

The ocean swallowed him without mercy. One moment, rotors thumped over black water; the next, steel and flesh were gone. Three sailors clawed back from the Arabian Sea. One never surfaced. As war with Iran tightens its grip on the Gulf, a single missing airman becomes the quiet epicenter of dread, duty, and denial. Families hold their breath. Commanders continue reading …