2023-08-27 09:34:15
Time.news – Three American soldiers died in the crash of a vertical take-off plane during an exercise in the Northern Territory of Australia. On board the Osprey vertical take-off aircraft that crashed near the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin. there were 23 Marines engaged in joint exercise “Predator Runs” by the Australian and American forces. Another 5 are hospitalized.
The Australian Ministry of Defense said that “there were American military personnel” aboard the Osprey, while no Australians appear to be involved. The ministry did not add details, limiting itself to communicating that “at the moment all the attention is in the response to the accident and for the safety of those who were on board”. In March a US Army Osprey crashed during a training exercise in Norway and four Marines were killed. In 2017, also in Australia, people were killed in another tiltrotor accident.
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