A search and rescue operation for a United States marine was called off Thursday after authorities failed to find him since he went missing in the Persian Gulf after jumping off an aircraft, the U.S. Navy said. The unidentified American will be first one to have died in the U.S.-led attack against the Islamic State group in northern Iraq and Syria.
Flying with four other crewmen in a new U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey aircraft, the Marine airman was flying from the USS Makin Island on Wednesday afternoon (local time) when the plane suddenly lost power and seemed to be heading towards the sea.
