Missing Marines Declared Dead and Identities Released Days After Aircraft is Found
Marine said that The loss of every Marine is felt across our entire Marine Corps family,
Officials suspended the search for the missing Marines early Sunday morning, about 11 hours after their hybrid aircraft,
an MV-22 Osprey, entered the water about 18 miles from the coast of the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland.
8, 2017
Three missing United States marines were officially declared dead
and their identities were released on Monday, two days after their aircraft crashed into the water off eastern Australia.
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was conducting regularly scheduled operations" when it entered the water, an initial news release said. that and
The Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft, was developed in the 1980s and earned a bad reputation after multiple crashes killed more than two dozen marines.
The Marine Corps said that the circumstances of the crash, which it had termed a mishap, were under investigation.
