US military aircraft crashes in California killing 4 marines
A US military plane crashed in southeastern California just north of the Mexican border on Wednesday evening, killing four marines onboard.
There was a fifth person onboard the plane and the search to find the individual is still underway.
The crash involved an MV-22B Osprey aircraft, which is a tiltrotor aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter and fly like an airplane by pivoting its rotors.
The aircraft was from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, an aviation unit headquartered at marine corps air station Miramar, in San Diego.
The plane had gone down in Imperial County near the Glamis Dunes, Naval Air Facility El Centro said in a Facebook post.
The facility, which is 15 miles north of the Mexican border in the Imperial Valley, trains Navy pilots, as well as aviators from other branches of the military.
The Pentagon confirmed the crash but denied reports that there were nuclear materials onboard.
The incident was the second military aircraft crash in Southern California in a week. An American Navy fighter jet crashed in the Mojave Desert last week, killing the pilot.
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