Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls the incident 'tragic,' saying the Osprey was supporting the Exercise Predators Run 2023 military exercise
on Sunday, August 27, while transporting troops during a routine military exercise, officials said.
They were among 23 Marines on the MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft when it crashed, the statement said, adding the cause of the crash was being investigated.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the incident “tragic”, saying the Osprey was supporting the Exercise Predators Run 2023 military exercise. No Australian personnel were involved in the crash, he said.
About 2,500 personnel from Australia, the US, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor were taking part in the exercises. “Australian and US personnel have stood shoulder to shoulder for more than a century,” Albanese and the Defence Minister Richard Marles said in a statement.
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