A good look at USS Green Bay's flight deck. Via Seaforces.org
* Footage released this weekend showed the horrific August 2017 Osprey smash that killed three Marines
* It was completing a day of practice missions in Australia when it struck the deck of the USS Green Bay and plunged 30 feet into the Pacific
* The chopper's co-pilot, 1st Lt. Benjamin Cross, died in the subsequent crash, as did Pfc Ruben Velasco, 19, and Cpl Nathaniel Ordway, 26
* Another 23 Marines who were on board the chopper at the time of the smash were rescued
* A subsequent investigation cleared Cross and his unnamed co-pilot of any wrongdoing, and said technical issues had caused the crash
* Last month, five decorated Marines were killed in an Osprey crash in California, with some branding the accident-plagued choppers flying death-traps
Newly-unearthed footage shows the moment a MV-22 Osprey helicopter crashed over the side of a US warship in 2017, killing three Marines who were on board.
The clip, first posted online Saturday, shows the sophisticated helicopter - which can fly like a plane and hover like a chopper - trying to land on the deck of the US Green Bay of the coast of Queensland, Australia, on August 5, 2017.
But the chopper - which has been plagued by fatal accidents that have killed 51 service personnel since its first flight in 1989 - suddenly drops unexpectedly.
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Update: Harrowing Video Of Deadly 2017 MV-22 Osprey Crash Emerges (Warzone/The Drive)
WNU Editor: Three were killed and 23 were wounded. After looking at the above video I could not help but feel that this could have been far worse.
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