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Three U.S. Marines Killed in MV-22 Crash, Melville Island, NT, Australia
At approximately 2300 EST, initial reports began to indicate a U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey had crashed while supporting Exercise PREDATORS RUN in Northern Territory, Australia. For the first hour, reports only indicated that Marines were injured in the crash. However, by 0230 EST, local media learned that of the twenty three Marines onboard, three had died, one had been critically injured, and two more had been serious injured.