terrible incident. the government stands by to offer whatever assistance is required. we have stood up a number of systems in the northern territory to respond to this incident. we are well resourced and well practiced in the northern territory in responding to emergencies. reporter: according to the marine row takal force darwin, the u.s. marines were flying as a part of a joint training with australia and other countries that was called exercise predators run. toes pray is the primary transport aircraft for the marines. since 2012 the tilt rotor aircraft has seen six fatal crashes causing at least 19 marine corps deaths. three similarly died in 2017 off of australia s coast. now, this is the second is aircraft crash of the week for the marine corps. on thursday major andrew metler died in an f-18 hornet crash during a training exercise near san diego. the commanding of the 2nd marine aircraft wing stated, quote: we