Will You Ever Fly Again? The Shocking Truth About Aircraft Safety.According to a Japan shore Guard official. At least one person was killed Wednesday after a US military Osprey aircraft crashed. The shore of Japan’s Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima prefecture.
According to the Coast Guard, there were six persons on board the aircraft. Previously, officials stated that eight people were on board.
The representative noted that no further information about the other passengers or the cause of the crash was available.
According to the spokesman, the Coast Guard received information of the collision about 2:47 p.m. local time (12:47 a.m. ET), and the 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters dispatched a patrol boat and plane to the disaster site.
According to a Kagoshima prefectural official, the Yakushima Airport Management Office received a call from the US military Wednesday afternoon seeking an emergency landing at Kagoshima Airport.
The spokesman from Kagoshima prefecture did not say if the request originated from the US Marines or the Air Force.
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It is the most recent crash involving an Osprey military aircraft. Which has been involved in multiple incidents over the years.
Three US Marines were killed and several others were critically injured. When an Osprey crashed during military drills in Australia in August of this year.
Five US Marines were killed in 2022. When their MV-22B Osprey jet crashed during a training operation near Glamis, California. During NATO training operations in Norway that year. Four US service members. They were killed when their Osprey crashed.
The Osprey is a highly adaptable aircraft that can take off vertically like a helicopter while simultaneously travelling at high speeds like a more traditional turboprop plane with wings.
Cedric Leighton, Ospreys are generally safe to fly, but the aircraft has a history of technical and operational troubles dating back to the 1980s
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