A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor crashed on Wednesday in California, the US Naval Air Base in El Centro said in a statement, published on Facebook (banned in Russia; owned by Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).

Earlier, the profile portal USNI-News reported that, according to preliminary data, nuclear materials could be on board the crashed tiltrotor. There are no data on the dead and injured at the moment. According to USNI-News, three to five people could be on board the MV-22B Osprey.