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A U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey switches between flight modes during a test mission. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American military tiltrotor aircraft whose history of accidents have provoked concerns about its safety. The aircraft was developed by Bell Helicopter and Boeing Helicopters, which build and support the aircraft.
Multiple people are believed to be dead after an American Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea in southwest Japan last week
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Military transport tiltrotor "V-22" redirects here. For other uses, see V22 (disambiguation). V-22 Osprey A MV-22 being used during a MAGTF demonstration during the 2014 Miramar Air Show General information Type Tiltrotor military transport aircraft National origin United States ...
The Osprey is a tiltrotor aircraft, meaning it uses powered rotors on top of a fixed wing to lift vertically like a helicopter, and those rotors are then angled horizontally during flight to ...
The military announced late Wednesday it was grounding all of its Osprey V-22 helicopters, one week after eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members died in a crash off the coast ...
The Osprey, a workhorse aircraft vital to U.S. military missions, has been approved to return to flight after an “unprecedented” part failure led to the deaths of eight service members in a ...
The crash resulted in a two-month moratorium on V-22 test flights and further postponed its entry into operational military service. [12] The Department of Defense Director of Operational Test and Evaluation wrote a report seven months after the crash stating the Osprey was not "operationally suitable, primarily because of reliability, maintainability, availability, human factors and ...
An Air Force Osprey crash off Japan in 2023 that killed eight airmen was caused by a “catastrophic failure” of the aircraft’s gearbox and the pilot’s “insufficient sense of urgency” to ...