Two US soldiers killed in Taliban suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan Read moreMarines based in Japan said “search and rescue operations continue for three US marines that were aboard an MV-22 Osprey involved in a mishap off of the east coast of Australia”. The MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor is the primary assault support aircraft for the marines, with two engines positioned on fixed wing tips that allow it to land and take off vertically. “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 statement said. The ship’s small boats and aircraft are involved in the search off Shoalwater Bay in Queensland. In December last year an MV-22 Osprey made what the marines called a “controlled landing” just off the coast of Okinawa during a night training flight that left the aircraft in pieces.

Source: The Guardian August 05, 2017 13:15 UTC