Twenty leathernecks survived the fiery crash, an outcome one Australian official called 'incredible.'
— Eight U.S. Marines remained in a hospital in the Australian north coast city of Darwin on Monday after they were injured in aAll 20 survivors were flown from Melville Island 50 miles south to Darwin within hours of the Marine V-22 Osprey crashing at 9:30 a.m. Sunday during a multinational training exercise, Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles said.The first five Marines to arrive at the city's main hospital were critically injured and one underwent emergency surgery.
The Osprey that crashed was one of two that flew from Darwin to Melville on Sunday as part of Exercise Predators Run, which involves the militaries of the United States, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor. The bodies of the three Marines remained at the crash site, where an exclusion zone would be maintained, Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy said.
Before Sunday, there had been five fatal crashes of Marine Ospreys since 2012, causing a total of 16 deaths.
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