Osprey military aircraft hard‑lands and catches fire in North Carolina forest

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Osprey military aircraft hard‑lands and catches fire in North Carolina forest
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An Osprey military aircraft hard‑landed Thursday morning near Sweet Home Church Road in Bladen Lakes State Forest, North Carolina, igniting a fire at the crash site.

One of the four Marines on board suffered burns and was air‑lifted to the UNC Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill, while the other three Marines were uninjured; the aircraft was carrying about 6,000 pounds of jet fuel, and six to seven fire departments, along with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, responded while awaiting personnel from Camp Lejeune.

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