An MV-22 Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 161 (VMM-161) flies during a U.S. Personnel Recovery Coordination Center (PRCC) validation exercise at Grand Bara, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dwane R. Young)
On August 27, a United States military aircraft crashed on a north Australian island during a multinational exercise, killing three Marines and wounding 20 others.
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was carrying 23 service members when it went down at about 9:30 a.m. [local time] near the Tiwi Islands, officials with the Marine Rotational Force-Darwin said in a statement.
Five of the wounded service members were taken to the Royal Darwin Hospital in serious condition, according to the statement.
The Osprey had been transporting troops as part of a “routine training exercise” in support of Exercise Predators Run, a joint military exercise, officials said, adding that recovery efforts were ongoing.
The annual Predator Run military exercises involves forces from Australia, the U.S., East Timor, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the crash a “tragic” incident and assured that Australian troops were not involved.
“Our focus as a government and as a department of defense is very much on incident response and on making sure that every support and assistance is given at this difficult time,” he said.
Ospreys are tilt-rotor aircraft that combine the features of both helicopters and turboprop planes. The aircraft has two swiveling engines positioned on fixed wingtips that allow it to land and take off vertically, but also move at faster speeds than a conventional helicopter.
The Osprey’s complex design came into question after a series of fatal incidents. In June last year, five Marines were killed when an Osprey crashed in the California desert near the Arizona border. Later in March of the same year, an Osprey crashed near a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise, killing four Marines.
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sorry, but dying is part of playing war!
it was a training exercise a considerable distance from most if the flashpoints discussed here. bloodthirsty southfront posters, nafo idiots, god deliver us from them all.
i am not sorry they are nazi usa soldiers i just hope the other 20 die of their wounds, get out of australia nazi usa and take your nazi collaborators the australian political parties from all sides with you. =z=
3 less dead nazis in my homeland australia and another 20 wounded nazis now if only they all die of their injuries and then we kick the rest of nazi usa out of australia and they can take all these nazi collaborator government with them from all political parties here. death to all nazi usa soldiers get out of my country nazis, long live russia =z=
the “z” posters abroad seem more like an irrational liability than a support. ideally you would not foam at the mouth over a helicopter accident. the likelihood that even the far leftist and rightist politics you have probably dabbled in wouldn’t have you and you’re now resorting to this is great.
also your opsec is incredibly sloppy, greek mike :)
nazi collaborator keep on sprouting your rubbish mate as russia is coming for all you nazis. =z=
you’re not too bright, i do not support nato expansionism or russia’s smo, which to date has revealed serious graft, poor planning and lack of direction courtesy of schwab alumnus putin. usual twitter/redditard/4chan level of binary thinking.
mate your the one who started this and now your the one whining lol =z=
yes, because you celebrate the deaths of people you cannot know. for me, it would be preferable for there to be peace.
port augusta is it? should be happy to be getting the submarine work, m80
no submarine work here mate, you nazi, and no one wants nazi usa in australia mate so take your nazi usa and fuck off. =z=
no work at all i’d imagine.
poor little nazi in his mummys basement pulling his pud rofl =z=
projection, a life devoid of meaning. you assume that if one is skeptical of putin or derides the bloodlust so common on the sidelines, one must be waving the yellow and blue. not so. you were so easy to find, michael.
who is hiding mate certainly not me, so if you want a confrontation and fight bring it on nazi i am waiting for you nazi filth oh and you certainly wont get any sympathy from our town nazi thats for sure in fact they might do you in before i get the chance nazi. =z=
unemployed mentalist larping as russian. you could at least help nannou make some vine leaves instead of baying for blood.
run along little nazi and keep looking behind you as russia is coming for you and your transgender nazi pals lol =z=
do you still have the nazi looking dog?
yeah and he enjoys eating nazis so come by one day and say hi to him because it will be the last thing you see nazi scum =z=
easily triggered. the greeks may have invented sex, but it was the romans who decided to test it out on women.
what the hell are you talking about nazi???? =z=
you wear this term out like a first year university marxist. hitler was a man of some incredible talent, with an awful, inhumane pathology. i find it breathtaking that you are no less energised by violence, at least he had the excuse of being brutalised by the first world war. you’d both have done better in art school.
oh you poor little nazi are your transgender nazi feelings hurt because i called you out nazi???? =z=
i would love to add something constructive but i failed to launch and have to pick a side to imbue my existence with a vague moral anchor. brb, flipping a (taxpayer) coin…
rofl so “fat cat” makes up an user name to try and pass off as me rofl keep dreaming nazi =z=
tomu ja poviem dobrá správa pre celý mierumilovný svet!!! zase o pád vrahov menej!!!
this is the cover story to hide the deaths of these arseholes in ukraine. expect many more “accidents” in the coming weeks.
because seeing one incident in the news negates all others…
three less rabid dogs that will go around the world and kill innocent people in the name of “democracy”! i wish those three to be joined by the remaining 20 injured rabid dogs…