incident. the northern territory government stands by to offer whatever assistance is required but we have stood up a number of assistants in the northern territory to respond to this incident. we are well resourced and will practice in the northern territory in responding to emergencies big. according to the marine rotational force darwin u.s. marines were flying as part of a joint training. with australia and other countries was called exercise predators run. the offspring as a primary transport aircraft for the marines put loads or vertical takeoff and landings while traveling in the air like a turboprop 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 us to raise coast this is a second aircraft crash of the week for the marine corps on thursday at major andrew mettler dighton f-18 hornet crashed during a training exercise near san diego the commanding general of the second marine aircraft wi