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US Aircraft Down During NATO Drills by nurudeen181(m): 7:02am On Mar 19, 2022 |
A US Marine Corps aircraft with four people on board went missing
in northern Norway during the “Cold Response” NATO exercises in
the Arctic, the Norwegian military confirmed on Friday. A possible
crash site has been located and rescue crews are trying to reach it
overland due to bad weather conditions.
The V-22 Osprey was on a training mission and was due to land at
the Forsvaret Air Force base of Bodo at 6pm local time on Friday,
the Norwegian military said in a statement . Its last known location
was at Saltfjellet, a mountain range in the Nordland province.
Search and rescue efforts were launched by 6:30pm local time,
and “discoveries were made from the air” at 9:17pm, at Gratadalen
in Beiarn, the military in Oslo added. Due to bad weather
conditions, however, local police and rescue services have been
dispatched to the site by road.
“There have been snowstorms in the area and winds that are quite
strong and increasing. So the weather is playing against us,” rescue
service spokesman Thomas Ringen told the newspaper VG .
However, Ringen said the “area of interest” is not far from a road,
so he hoped it would be “reasonably easy” for rescuers to reach it.
Friday was supposed to be the last day of Cold Response 2020, a
massive NATO exercise hosted by Norway and designed to test
alliance forces’ capabilities and cooperation “in a challenging Arctic
environment with rugged terrain and extreme cold
weather,” according to the US Marine Corps.
Some 1,500 US troops from the USMC, army, navy and the air force
were to take part in the drills, along with forces from eight other
NATO and “partner nations” numbering 15,000 in total.
The tilt-rotor Bell-Boeing V-22 is an aircraft of unique design,
capable of taking off and landing like a helicopter but flying like an
airplane. This makes it challenging to fly, however. During
development, the model had four crashes that resulted in 30
deaths. A total of 12 more people have died in seven crashes since
the V-22 went into service in 2007, operated mainly by the Marines
and the US Air Force. |
Re: US Aircraft Down During NATO Drills by nurudeen181(m): 7:09am On Mar 19, 2022 |
not in war yet falling like paper. what if in war.. they say bad weather.. hhhhhh not in war yet falling like paper. what if in war.. they say bad weather.. hhhhhh 1 Like |
Re: US Aircraft Down During NATO Drills by sapientia(m): 9:47am On Mar 19, 2022 |
nurudeen181: I know you don't know That's exactly why people conduct military exercises to learn what can happen in actual war They must have learnt a lot of lesson from this to avoid it during real war |
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