LIMA, Peru — Investigators picked through the wreckage Tuesday of a US-owned cargo helicopter that crashed in the Peruvian jungle, killing its five American and two Peruvian crew members. The heavy-lift, twin-rotor Chinook BH-234 chopper, owned by Columbia Helicopters in the Portland suburb of Aurora, Oregon, crashed Monday shortly after taking off from the provincial capital of Pucallpa bound for Tarapoto. Witnesses quoted in local media reports said it lost control and spewed smoke before crashing. A local police commander, Miguel Cardoso, said three bodies were recovered Monday and two more had been located inside the chopper's charred wreckage. — AP
