BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Once again, 10 Americans missing, three bodies recovered today. With now from the Pentagon, CNN military affairs correspondent, Jamie McIntyre. Jamie, good afternoon.</s>JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Bill. At this point, Pentagon officials fear the worst, that is that there may be no survivors from this helicopter crash. The helicopter involved was a special operations version of the venerable CH-47 Chinook helicopter. This one in particular was being operated by soldiers from the 160th special operations aviation regimen, from Fort Campbell, Kentucky. This particular version of the helicopter has some special equipment, including the ability to refuel in the air, special devices for special operations troops to repel down onto a scene. In this case, it was essentially transporting the special operations troops that are training and assisting Philippines forces in that battle against Abu Sayyaf rebels. And apparently, it had dropped off these troops that it needed to drop off and was returning to another island when it crashed about 100 miles from shore. So there is no indication here of any hostile fire, simply that the helicopter apparently developed some sort of a problem and went down. Again, officials here, search and rescue goes on, but the fear is, as time goes by, that the likelihood of any survivors has become quite slim.</s>HEMMER: That is the grim reality so many times. Jamie, thank you. Jamie McIntyre from the Pentagon.
Pentagon Officials Fear There May Be No Survivors in Helicopter Crash in Philippines