A helicopter that crashed on Jul. 6 in the Tsugaru Strait off Oma, Aomori Prefecture, was salvaged on Jul. 10 for an investigation into the cause of the accident.

The four people aboard went missing in the accident and the body of one of them - Hiromitsu Kikuchi, 43, the copilot - was recovered by divers from inside the wreckage on Jul. 9.