The US Marines' official investigation ruled out "material or mechanical failure" for the Northern Territory disaster.
Human error was to blame for a deadly US Marines Corps aviation crash in the Northern Territory last year, an official report has found.
The tiltrotor aircraft was taking part in Exercise Predators Run, run by the Australian Defence Force.The MV-22B Osprey aircraft is widely flown by the US military but has a mixed safety record. Two Marines were killed by the August 27 crash, pilots Captain Eleanor V. LeBeau, 29, and Major Tobin J. Lewis, 37. A third Marine, crew chief Corporal Spencer R. Collart, 21, was killed as he "heroically re-entered the burning cockpit of the aircraft in an attempt to rescue the trapped pilots," the investigators said in its report.
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