{"id":8179,"date":"2023-08-27T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2023-08-27T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T07:05:15","slug":"us-military-aircraft-crashes-during-drills-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2023\/08\/27\/us-military-aircraft-crashes-during-drills-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"US military aircraft crashes during drills in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United States military aircraft crashed during drills in Australia&#8217;s Northern Territory on Sunday with around 20 people on board, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Defence Department confirmed the Osprey vertical takeoff aircraft had been carrying US &#8220;defence personnel&#8221;, and said that it appeared no Australian soldiers were involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this critical early stage, our focus is on the incident response and ensuring the safety of those involved,&#8221; the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was involved in drills near the Tiwi Islands north of Darwin, and several people have reportedly been rescued, according to Australian public broadcaster ABC.<\/p>\n<p>An emergency services incident map for the Northern Territory said there had been an &#8220;aircraft crash&#8221; on Melville Island, some 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of the Australian mainland on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Osprey was taking part in the Predators Run exercises, a joint series of warfighting drills held between the US and Australian militaries.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreys are tilt-rotor aircraft that combine the vertical takeoff ability of a helicopter with the speed of a turboprop plane, according to the US Air Force.<br \/>\nAPP\/BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United States military aircraft crashed during drills in Australia&#8217;s Northern Territory on Sunday with around 20 people on board, according to local media. Australia&#8217;s Defence Department confirmed the Osprey vertical takeoff aircraft had been carrying US &#8220;defence personnel&#8221;, and said that it appeared no Australian soldiers were involved. &#8220;At this critical early stage, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8181,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/8181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}