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Another sad day in aviation...V22 crash
From my local paper...thoughts and prayers to MCAS New River and the families of those injured and killed. 
Two Marines killed in Morocco Osprey crash
Written by
Gina Cavallaro
Marine Corps Times
Two U.S. Marines were killed and two others severely injured in the crash of an MV-22 Osprey during a training mission in southern Morocco, the Marine Corps confirmed Wednesday.
The Osprey, a twin-rotor craft that takes off and lands like a helicopter and flies like an airplane, reportedly crashed in a military training area southwest of Agadir, Morocco, after taking off from aboard the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima, said Capt. Kevin Schultz, a Marine spokesman at the Pentagon in Washington.
The aircraft was attached to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which deployed from Camp Lejeune, N.C., on March 29. Among the major subordinate units that belonged to the unit was Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261, an Osprey unit out of Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C.
The unit is in Morocco supporting Exercise African Lion, an annual 10-day joint exercise with Royal Moroccan Armed Forces.
The event was scheduled to conclude April 17. More than 1,000 Marines, and about 200 soldiers, sailors and airmen from across the U.S. are participating.
Further information about the crash was being withheld until the next of kin were notified, said Rodney Ford, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Rabat.
Despite a rocky beginning for the Osprey more than 12 years ago with the deaths of 23 Marines in two crashes during testing, the Marine Corps has rated the MV-22 as effective in a combat environment, first fielding it in an operational capacity in Iraq in 2007.
An Air Force version of the Osprey, the CV-22, crashed in Afghanistan on April 9, 2010, marking the only fatal incident involving an Osprey in the war zone.
Two of the three cockpit crew members died attempting a night landing at a desert landing zone. Also killed were a soldier and a civilian contractor ? two of 16 passengers in the cargo compartment. The co-pilot survived.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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