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A US Marine Corps aircraft carrying four occupants crashed in northern Norway during a NATO exercise Friday evening, according to officials.
None of the occupants were believed to have survived, Nordland police chief of staff Bent Eilertsen told Reuters.
“We’ve discovered an aircraft that has crashed. We’ve seen no sign of life,” Eilertsen said.
The Marines said only that an “incident” occurred in northern Norway, and that the aircraft was an MV-22B Osprey that was part of NATO Exercise Cold Response 22.
The incident remained under investigation, the Marines said in a Twitter message.
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A Bell Boeing V22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft with the US Marines, takes off from Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan.
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In a statement provided to Fox News, a spokesperson for the II Marine Expeditionary Force said it was aware of what it described as a “mishap” involving an aircraft in Norway.
‘Grateful for their efforts’
Norwegian authorities were conducting a search and rescue effort, the spokesperson added.
“We are grateful for their efforts and will assist them in the search and rescue in all manners possible,” the spokesperson said.
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Rescue crews were headed to the site of the incident, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centers of Norway said.
Weather conditions in the area were “challenging” and were expected to get worse, the centers said in a message posted online.
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The Norwegian Armed Forces said the aircraft’s last known position was at Saltfjellet, several hundred miles from the Russian border, with parts of Sweden and Finland in the intervening space.
A rescue helicopter was dispatched, but the mission was canceled.