US military plane disappears during NATO exercises in Norway


A small American military plane with four crew members who participated in the maneuvers of the NATO in Norway he was declared missing this Friday, reported the authorities of the Scandinavian country.

The plane US OSPREY “He was declared missing at 08:26 (17:26 GMT) in the south of Bodø” (north), the Northern Norway Rescue Services (HRS) said in a statement, pointing to the bad weather conditions there at that time.

The four crew members were participating in the Cold Response exercise, which mobilized 200 planes and some 50 ships from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The statement adds that at 9:17, a place with the possible presence of the device was identified from the air, but that “it was not possible to approach it, due to weather conditions.”

“We are not in that place and therefore we do not know anything about the four people who were on board. But we do know that it is an accident site,” he told the norwegian public television HRS spokesman Jan Eskil Severinsen.

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