On Wednesday, March 6, the Mexican Navy announced that one of their helicopters crashed into the Pacific Ocean shortly after taking off from the deck of a patrol ship. Preliminarily, 3 military personnel were reported dead, and 2 others are missing, according to the Associated Press. The Eurocopter Panther helicopter took off from an ocean patrol vessel about 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) southwest of the Pacific coast port of Lazaro Cardenas. The Mexican Navy regularly patrols this area to detect secret maritime shipments of cocaine. Searches for the missing continued on Wednesday, and …