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Three US marines who were killed in a fiery helicopter crash during a military drill in Australia have been identified.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The MV-22B Osprey came down on a remote island north of Darwin on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Captain Eleanor LeBeau, 29, Corporal Spencer Collart, 21, and Major Tobin Lewis, 37, were killed and the 20 other people on board – all US marines – were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a statement on Tuesday, the commanding officer of the Marine Rotational Force Darwin said the force was “deeply saddened” by the loss of such “respected and beloved” marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Capt LeBeau – originally from Illinois – was piloting the Osprey and had served in the marines for five years, while Cpl Collart – from Virginia – enlisted in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maj Lewis – from Colorado – was a highly decorated leader with over 15-years’ experience in the marines, and was the executive officer on board the aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Our thoughts and prayers remain with the families and with all involved,” Colonel Brendan Sullivan said, adding that his team remained focused on ongoing recovery and investigative efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The aircraft had been participating in Predators Run, a training exercise involving 2,500 troops from the US, Australia, the Philippines, East Timor and Indonesia, when it crashed on Melville Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soon after, air traffic control were heard discussing a “significant fire” at the site, according to audio obtained by local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All 20 marines who survived the crash were taken to hospital. One remains in a critical condition, and another two are in hospital but stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The incident is the second fatal helicopter crash during joint exercises in northern Australia in less than a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On 29 July four Australian soldiers died after their 45 MRH-90 Taipan crashed off the coast of Queensland while participating in Exercise Talisman Sabre, the largest bilateral military training exercise between Australia and the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The latest incident is one of several recent crashes involving an Osprey – a helicopter and turbo-prop plane hybrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Four marines were killed in a crash in Norway last year, and three others died in 2017 when their aircraft clipped the back of a transport ship off northern Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Three US marines who were killed in a fiery helicopter crash during a military drill in Australia have been identified. The MV-22B Osprey came down on a remote island north of Darwin on Sunday. Captain Eleanor LeBeau, 29, Corporal Spencer Collart, 21, and Major Tobin Lewis, 37, were killed and the 20 other people on board – all US marines – were injured. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. In a statement on Tuesday, the commanding officer of the Marine Rotational Force Darwin said the force was “deeply saddened” by the loss of such “respected and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34425,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34423\/revisions\/34425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}