Three U.S. Marines were killed and at least five were critically injured when their aircraft, an MV-22 Osprey carrying 23 service members, crashed in northern Australia during routine multinational exercises, according to the U.S. military.
The Bell Boeing tiltrotor aircraft crashed on Melville Island, north of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory, at about 9:30 a.m. local time on Aug. 27, Marine Rotational Force Darwin, a U.S. Marine task force, said in a statement.
