The remains of six people on board a helicopter which crashed in Hawaii have been found.
A seventh person is presumed dead as authorities contact family members before releasing further details.
The wreckage was discovered in a mountainous area in Kauai, a small nearby island, officials have announced.
The Eurocopter AS350 did not return from a flight around Kauai's Na Pali coast on Thursday night.
It went off radar and a search started soon after but it has been hampered by bad weather.
The helicopter was carrying one pilot and six passengers and there were strong winds and heavy rain reported when it disappeared.
Two of those on board at the time are believed to be children.
Kauai Fire Department Battalion Chief Sol Kanoho said: "There are no indications of survivors."
Coast guard officer Sara Muir said the rescue teams were “looking for any sign of the helicopter both on land and in the water and along the coastline”.
Hawaii department of land and natural resources spokesman Dan Dennison says that conditions make things demanding.
“During the winter, flash floods frequently close the trail out of safety concerns,” he said. “It has numerous streams that can rise very fast.
“You can have very low ceilings. You can have fog and cloud banks that move in very quickly. You can have heavy rain and strong winds that make flying difficult if not impossible at times.
“It’s such a vast area with so many ins and outs and pockets of vegetation.
“It’s just really hard to see from the air through the heavy canopy.”
