By Jill Senior
A helicopter from a purse-seine fishing vessel-crashed into another purse seiner while the vessels were fishing in waters near the Marshall Islands on Sunday, March 3, 2013.
A Chinese fisherman was seriously injured and died at sea two days after the crash. The 51-year-old Filipino pilot, Thomas Bustos, survived.
Details about the accident were unclear, but the U.S. Embassy in Majuro confirmed that it involved U.S. -flagged and Taiwan-flagged purse-seine fishing vessels. Purse-seine fishing vessels routinely use helicopters to search for schools of tuna.
The crewmember who was killed was a 48 year old Chinese national named Shuiyao Wang. Police in Majuro are investigating the incident.
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