Cold Response 2022 aims to test how Norway would manage allied reinforcements on its soil in the event that NATO’s mutual defence clause were triggered.
A US military plane with four people onboard crashed in northern Norway while taking part in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) drills, reported local media on Friday.
According to regional emergency services, the US Osprey aircraft lost contact with ground support at 6.26 pm local time south of Bodo, northern Norway, due to bad weather.
The 4-person crew was participating in the Cold Response military exercises involving over 30,000 people from NATO and partner countries.
Meanwhile, the US Marine Corps called it a “mishap” involving the MV-22B Osprey plane and said that Norwegian civil authorities are leading the search and rescue operations.
The rescue team was searching for the crashed aircraft from the air and managed to see some signs of the plane but the weather was too bad for the to land.
Rescue teams and police are heading to the area, as per latest reports.