09.06.2022, 05:35
Offenbar ein erneuter Absturz einer Osprey:
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Zitat:Status of 5 Marines Unknown Following MV-22B Osprey Crash in Southern Californiahttps://news.usni.org/2022/06/08/marine-...ew-unknown
An MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft carrying five Marines assigned to a squadron based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., went down Wednesday afternoon in the Southern California desert, military officials said. “We can confirm that an aircraft belonging to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing crashed near Glamis, CA. Military and civilian first responders are on site,” officials with the San Diego-based wing said in a statement this afternoon. [...]
An Osprey usually carries a crew of three to five people, depending on the mission, but officials have yet to disclose the fate of the crew. Local television showed Navy helicopters in the area, where local and federal search-and-rescue crews had responded. The crash happened at about 12:25 p.m., 1st Lt. Duane Kampa, a 3rd MAW spokesman, said by phone from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Calif. The area around Glamis, northeast of the Navy’s air facility at El Centro and northwest of Yuma, Ariz., is a sandy, desert area that’s popular with offroaders. [...]
The mishap is the second serious one involving a Marine Corps MV-22B this year. In March, an MV-22B crashed in Norway during a training exercise that killed four Marines.
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