A military aircraft crashed near the Bellows Air Force Base in Waimanalo, Hawaii, on Sunday, killing one marine and injuring 21 others.
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Twenty-two Marines were aboard at the time, and the other 21 were transported to local hospitals for assessment and treatment, the U.S. Marine Corps said in a statement.
A local television station had this footage of the aftermath of the crash:
Video just into our newsroom of a downed helicopter at Bellows. Courtesy M. Raquinio @KITV4 pic.twitter.com/y1WvpQEFCX— Ashley Moser KITV (@AshleyMoser) May 17, 2015
"I saw it come back down...try to turn to the left...it went down from there. I heard a loud boom then I saw debris flying." - crash witness— Ashley Moser KITV (@AshleyMoser) May 17, 2015
The Marine Corps said in an earlier statement that the Osprey aircraft had "a hard landing mishap" during training around 11 a.m. local time.
New pic: #Breaking: Military aircraft goes down at Bellows AFB http://t.co/7j1sfugy7f #HINews pic.twitter.com/IzfH6R69W5— Hawaii News Now (@HawaiiNewsNow) May 17, 2015
The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is based at Camp Pendleton in California but were in Hawaii for training.