A UH-1 Huey conducting relief operations as part of Joint Task Force 505 went missing in Nepal on Tuesday after yet another earthquake rocked the disaster stricken nation. Six United States Marines and two members of the Nepalese Army were on board.

The helicopter had been operating near the town of Charikot, according to a spokesman. The search for the helicopter and crew was suspended during the night for darkness but resumed this morning. From the BBC:

The aircraft had dropped off supplies at one location, and was en route to a second site when contact was lost, according to Col Warren.

Officials are hopeful that the flight had not crashed, since no sign of smoke or fire has yet been discovered.

"Essentially what we have right now is truly a missing helicopter. We simply don't know its location," Col Warren said.

Hundreds of members of the Nepalese Army are involved in the search for the craft Wednesday. From AP.

"The info we have is that it is down in one of the rivers, but none of the choppers has seen it yet," Major Rajan Dahal, second-in-command of the Barda Bahadur Battalion, told Reuters in the district capital, Charikot.

"There are 400-plus of our ground troops looking for it also. By this evening, we might get it," he said.