Story highlights US Marine Corps: Twenty-three of 26 personnel on board have been rescuedUS military has been conducting training exercise with Australian forces(CNN) US military aircraft and boats are scouring waters off Australia's east coast Saturday for three Marines involved in what the Marines Corps is calling a "mishap" with an MV-22 aircraft. Twenty-three of the 26 personnel on board have been rescued, the US Marine Corps said. Small boats and aircraft from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group are carrying out the search and rescue operation, according to the Marine Corps. The MV-22 is a vertical-launch aircraft, also known as an Osprey. "The aircraft involved in the mishap had launched from the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and was conducting regularly scheduled operations when the aircraft entered the water," the Marine Corps said in a statement.

Source: CNN August 05, 2017 13:20 UTC