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Search becomes recovery operation

Updated on 02 April 2009

By Nick Martin

Police say there is no hope of finding any survivors from yesterday's helicopter crash in the North Sea.

The search is now being treated as a recovery operation.

The helicopter went down 14 miles from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. Eight bodies were discovered in the water and were brought back to port this morning.

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