HAVANA, Cuba - Accident investigators in the Bahamas said they've recovered the helicopter that crashed off the coast of a remote private island Thursday. The Bahamas Air Accident Investigation Department said on its website that a Florida-based contractor pulled the Agusta helicopter from the ocean Saturday night. Sholten Singer/Herald-Dispatch via AP In this Sept. 6, 2014 photo, Chris Cline speaks as Marshall University dedicates the new indoor practice facility as the Chris Cline Athletic Complex in Huntington, West Virginia. The helicopter was expected to be taken to Fort Lauderdale and then to an accident investigation facility in Fort Pierce. The accident investigation department also said it's interviewing witnesses on Big Grand Cay.

Three LSU students were among those killed in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas in July 2019. - Phi Mu sorority of LSU announced via social media, the death of three sorority sisters. Also killed in the crash was his daughter, Kameron Cline, a student at LSU in Baton Rouge, and a member of Phi Mu sorority. Police say the helicopter took off from Big Grand Cay, Bahamas, around 2 A.M. Thursday. Police officers and residents of Grand Cay discovered the aircraft overturned in 16 feet of water about two miles off Grand Cay in the Abacos.

(CNN) - West Virginia coal billionaire and philanthropist Chris Cline died in a helicopter crash near the Bahamas on Thursday, the governor said. "Today we lost a WV superstar and I lost a very close friend," West Virginia Gov. Evan Jenkins, a justice at the West Virginia Supreme Court, said the state has lost a philanthropist who donated to several programs. He came from a family of coal minersCline grew up in a coal family -- his father and grandfather worked at mines. He started working as an underground miner in West Virginia in 1980 at age 22, and a decade later founded his energy development company, the Cline Group.

NASSAU, Bahamas - Police say a helicopter has crashed in the Bahamas, killing seven Americans, the Associated Press reports. The helicopter was en route to Fort Lauderdale, and went down two miles off Grand Cay island, with four women and three men, Bahamian police said. Those on board were not identified by police, but Beckley, West Virginia's Register-Herald newspaper quoted Governor Jim Justice as saying one victim was mining entrepreneur Chris Cline, whose spokesman did not return calls Thursday night. A cause of the crash is not known but police in the Bahams said civilian aviation authorities on the island have launched an investigation. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.