THREE people are missing feared dead, and up to 20 have been rescued, some with serious injuries, after a US military aircraft went down off Rockhampton.
The helicopter — an MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor helicopter, which can operate from aircraft carriers — was used in Australia as part of the giant Australian-US military exercise Talisman Sabre, which has just concluded.
It is understood the aircraft crashed off the coast of Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton in central North Queensland in the late afternoon.