The fate of its crew is not known.. a US warplane crashes in northern Norway

The Joint Rescue Coordination Centers in Norway said on Friday that a US warplane with 4 people on board had crashed in northern Norway, while the US Navy said that the cause of the accident was still under investigation.

The centers said that the plane - a MV-22B Osprey - was participating in a NATO exercise, when it was reported missing at 5:26 pm GMT.

The plane, which was on a training flight, was scheduled to land at 5:00 GMT, at a time when the weather was bad in the fighter's flight area.

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A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centers, Jan Eskel Severinsen, said that the plane "smashed into the ground", and added that the fate of those on board was not known. Greenwich, adding, "We found it after receiving an emergency signal. Because of the bad weather, we cannot land. The police and rescue services are on their way overland."

The head of the communications department in the Norwegian army, Ole Christian Emmaus, said that they had no information about the nationality of those on board the American plane operating in the framework of NATO missions.

The US Navy stated - in a tweet on its Twitter account - that the plane belonged to the US Marine Corps, and that the cause of the accident was still under investigation.

We can confirm an incident has occurred involving a Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey aircraft.

The aircraft was training in COLD in Norway as part RESPONSE the time of the incident.

— US Marines (@USMC) March 18, 2022

It is noteworthy that the crashed plane was participating in a NATO exercise called "Cold Response 2022", in which 30,000 forces from NATO member states and other NATO partner countries are participating, and the training aims to examine Norway's readiness to escalate the management of reinforcements coming from the country's allies within NATO. , in the event of activating the joint defense clause of the alliance.

The training is taking place at a time when relations between NATO and Russia have reached the highest levels, after the latter launched a war on Ukraine since February 24.