Plane Wearing 5 Marines Crashes In California Wasteland

BRAWLEY, Calif. (AP) — A Marine Corps Osprey plane sporting 5 Marines crashed Wednesday within the Southern California barren region and civilian and armed forces emergency crews had been responding, however there have been no fast information about any accidents or fatalities, the army stated.

The MV-22B Osprey belonged to the third Marine Plane Wing primarily based at Camp Pendleton and went down at 12:25 p.m. all the way through coaching, stated Maj. Mason Englehart, spokesman for the third Marine Plane Wing, an aviation unit headquartered at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in San Diego, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) west of the crash website online close to the group of Glamis in Imperial County.

The tiltrotor plane can take off and land as a helicopter however transit as a turboprop plane.

Englehart stated he had no additional main points but to liberate concerning the 5 Marines who had been on board.