The Osprey disappeared from radar at the end of the day on Friday, when the weather was particularly difficult.
On a training mission as part of NATO's
Cold Response
exercise , which involves 200 planes and around 50 ships to test Norway's ability to receive military reinforcements, the American plane finally crashed .
The four soldiers on board, all Americans, died, announced a spokeswoman for the Norwegian Defense, Stine Barclay Gaasland.
“It is with great sadness that we received the message that four American soldiers died in a plane crash last night,” Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre wrote on Twitter.
"The soldiers were taking part in the NATO exercise 'Cold Response'".
“At 1:30 a.m. (0:30 a.m. GMT, editor’s note) during the night, the police arrived at the accident area,” the Norwegian Defense wrote in a press release.
The Cold Response exercise will continue as planned until April 1 with additional measures due to the weather, the Norwegian Defense said.
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