{"id":7455,"date":"2023-08-28T05:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7455"},"modified":"2023-08-28T05:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:19:48","slug":"australia-pm-vows-support-after-tragic-us-military-aircraft-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7455","title":{"rendered":"Australia PM vows support after &#8216;tragic&#8217; US military aircraft incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three US Marines died during military exercises in northern Australia on Sunday, the US military said, in an aircraft crash that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called &#8220;tragic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Five others were &#8220;transported to Royal Darwin Hospital in serious condition&#8221;, Marine Rotation Force &#8211; Darwin said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>It said they were among 23 Marines on the tilt-rotor MV-22B Osprey aircraft during routine training exercises and that the cause of the crash was being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred on the remote Tiwi Islands after 9am local time, said Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Australian personnel were not involved in the crash that occurred during Exercise Predators Run 2023, Albanese said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--HiWOPsgN--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1675889827\/4LDYIJC_Albo_Hipkins_11_jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Albanese\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Our focus as a government and as a department of defence is very much on incident response and on making sure that every support and assistance is given at this difficult time,&#8221; the prime minister told a previously scheduled press conference in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>About 2500 personnel from Australia, the US, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor were taking part in the exercises, Sky News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Four Australian soldiers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/494975\/defence-force-pauses-nh90-helicopter-flights-after-australian-crash\">were killed last month during large bilateral exercises<\/a>\u00a0when their helicopter crashed into the ocean off the coast of Queensland.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; This story was first published by<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/aircraft-with-us-military-personnel-crashes-australia-defence-ministry-2023-08-27\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three US Marines died during military exercises in northern Australia on Sunday, the US military said, in an aircraft crash that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called &#8220;tragic&#8221;. Five others were &#8220;transported to Royal Darwin Hospital in serious condition&#8221;, Marine Rotation Force &#8211; Darwin said in a press release. 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