Houston, Rabi'II 1, 1438, Dec 30, 2016, SPA -- Army officials said Thursday they recovered the body of one of two soldiers killed when a Texas Army National Guard helicopter broke apart on a routine training mission and crashed into Galveston Bay about 25 miles southeast of Houston. Besides searching for the missing crewmen, recovery teams also used a crane on a barge to retrieve parts of the wrecked Apache aircraft, AP reported. Witnesses said the helicopter was flying unusually low Wednesday afternoon when they heard a loud noise, saw it break up and plunge into in the bay about 25 yards offshore near a vacant cruise ship terminal. The Army's Centralized Accident Investigative Team based at Fort Rucker, Alabama, was en route, Maj. Gen. John Nichols, adjutant general of the Texas National Guard, said. "The team of experts will help us determine the cause of the accident," he said. "If this was preventable, we want to find out how it could have been prevented. And if it's caused by some other factor, identify that and mitigate that for all helicopter aviation." Nichols said it would be at least a month before any details of the investigation were released. --SPA 15:06 LOCAL TIME 12:06 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w301566