Four Marines aboard an American military plane crashed in Norway, where they took part in an exercise by Otan, were killed in the crash that left no survivors, announced on Saturday by Norwegian and Norwegian forces. American.
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“The four victims are of American nationality,” said Stine Barclay Gaasland, spokesman for the Norwegian Defense.
The US Army confirmed in a statement that it had assigned four Marines to the Second Marine Corps.
“In principle, the identity of the military was not disclosed before a deadline of 24 hours after all the notifications to the process had been made,” they said.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre took to Twitter to express his “great sadness”.
The Osprey model aircraft that belonged to the Marine Corps, with four crew members on board, had its radars sold on Friday at the end of the day, while the weather was difficult, announcing the services of the precursor that complicates the search. .
“At 1:30 (00H30 GMT, ndlr) during the night, the police arrived at the scene of the accident,” the Norwegian Defense wrote in a statement.
The area, subject to landslides and avalanches, was unpredictable on Saturday.
“Percuté la montagne”
“Everybody wants to believe that the (meteorological) situation will get worse tomorrow and that we can send people on the spot”, he said during a press conference by the chief of the Norland police, where the crash took place. .
“The most important thing for us is to find the people who are dead and to do our best to find the cause of the accident,” she said.
“The plane chased the mountain”, explained Inspector Bent Are Eilertsen, in charge of the local police.
The device was on a training mission as part of the Cold Response exercise involving 200 aircraft and one-fifth of blackheads.
These maneuvers, which will last until April 1st, aim to test the capacity of Norway to receive external reinforcements in the event of aggression by a third country, in accordance with Article 5 of the Charter of Otan which obliges its members to come to the rescue of one of them.
The Cold Response exercise continues as a precautionary measure with additional meteorological measures, specified the Norwegian Defense.
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