Defence minister tells reporters that ‘significant wreckage’ has been found after Taipan MRH-90 crash during training exercise in Queensland
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The defence minister, Richard Marles, says authorities have lost hope of finding alive the four missing crew members of an Australian defence force helicopter that crashed during a training exercise on Friday night.
He addressed reporters at Parliament House in Canberra, alongside the chief of the Australian defence force, Gen Angus Campbell. The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter crashed during a military training exercise in waters off Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands.
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