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In early March 2024 the US and Japan resumed flights of the V-22 with revised maintenance and pilot training focuses but no changes to the aircraft. [85] [86] The V-22 was returned to flight without equipment modifications, but investigators identified the part that failed and its failure mode. However, the accident remains under investigation.
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 ...
The V-22 Osprey is a troop transport with a helicopter's versatility and a turboprop's speed. But the V-22 has crashed several times since becoming operational in 2007, killing over 50 people.
A deadly Osprey aircraft crash last November off Japan was caused by cracks in a metal gear and the pilot’s decision to keep flying rather than heed multiple warnings that he should land ...
The 2023–2024 United Air Force V-22 Osprey crashes include several significant incidents involving the US Air Force CV-22 Osprey aircraft, primarily during training missions. The most notable of these crashes occurred on November 29, 2023, off the coast of Yakushima , Japan, when a CV-22 from the 21st Special Operations Squadron crashed ...
The U.S. military grounded its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft for months after the fatal crash, which happened during a routine training mission on Nov. 29 off Yakushima Island, about 1,040 km (650 ...
The military-wide grounding of V-22 aircraft in December came a week after eight airmen were killed when their CV-22 crashed off the coast of Yakushima Island, Japan — as well as a number of ...
In Japan, where U.S. military Ospreys had a non-fatal crash once and a number of incidents, the latest accident has rekindled safety concerns just as the Japanese government builds a new base for ...