Defence minister Richard Marles says the search for four missing military personnel will become a recovery mission after more wreckage from the MRH-90 Taipan that crashed in Queensland was discovered.

“With every passing hour, it is now clear any hope of finding Captain Lyon, Lieutenant Nugent, Corporal Naggs and Warrant Office Laycock alive has been lost,” Marles said.

“The tragedies that have taken place in the Whitsundays have transferred from those being of search and rescue to an activity of recovery.”

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