Marines recovered after deadly N.C. crash
     JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (July 28, 1997 7:39 p.m. EDT) - The bodies of
 two Marine Corps pilots killed in the crash of a military helicopter
 were recovered Monday off the coast of North Carolina, military
 officials said.
     The AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter was returning to the USS
 Shreveport and was about a mile away from the ship when it crashed
 into Onslow Bay Sunday, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit spokesman
 First Lt. Nat Fahy said.
     The crash occurred about seven miles southeast of New River
 inlet near Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base shortly before 11 p.m.
 Sunday, New River air station spokeswoman Lt. Sarah Fullwood said.
     The pilots were identified as Capt. Clark Cox, 32, a native of
 Iowa City, Iowa, and Capt. Jerrell Boggan, 30, originally of
 Haskell, Oklahoma. They were assigned to the air combat unit
 of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
     The pilots were participating in a week-long exercise aboard the
 ships of the USS Guam Amphibious Ready Group in preparation for a
 routine deployment to the Mediterranean Sea in October.
     They were involved in an exercise in which Marines are ferried
 to shore using rubber raiding craft, Fahy said.
     "The helicopter was involved in providing close air support for
 that mission," Fahy said. "It was on its return that it crashed."
     Search and rescue teams from the Marine Corps, the Navy and the
 Coast Guard were on the scene within 30 minutes, Fullwood said. The
 wreckage was located by a Sonar device attached to the rotor of the
 helicopter.
     A memorial service for the pilots was scheduled for Thursday.
     "The Marines of the MEU feel a profound sense of grief over the
 loss of our two brave young pilotrs," Fahy said. "They were talented
 in every respect."
     The AH-1W Super Cobra is a two-seat, twin-engine attack heli-
 copter used by the Marines since the Vietnam War.  The same type
 helicopter, also based at New River, was involved in a fatal crash
 near Dallas in May, killing two servicemen.
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 Otto Lilienthal
 {leel'-yen-tahl, oht'-oh}
     A German aviation pioneer of the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal,
 b. May 23, 1848, d. Aug. 10, 1896, helped lay the foundations for
 powered flight. Lilienthal founded (1880) a firm for the production
 of small steam engines and marine signal devices. After studying the
 flight of birds, he published the influential Birdflight as the
 Basis of Aviation (1889; Eng. trans., 1911). Lilienthal designed and
 tested a series of 18 manned gliders and in 1891, made the first of
 more than 2,000 glider flights. On Aug. 9, 1896, during one such
 flight, he crashed, and died the next day.
 Bibliography: Batchelor, J., Flight: The History of Aviation (1991).
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 J. W. Alcock
    The English aviator J. W. Alcock, b. Nov. 6, 1892,
 d. Dec. 18, 1919, was the pilot of the first nonstop flight across
 the Atlantic Ocean. Alcock gained fame as a World War I flying ace.
 In June 1919 he and his navigator, Lt. Arthur Whidden Brown, made
 their historic Newfoundland-to-Ireland transatlantic flight--a
 crossing of 16 hours 27 minutes. Both men were knighted for their
 accomplishment. Flying to Paris several months afterward, Alcock was
 killed when his plane crashed on the Normandy coast.
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