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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.
A few months later, five Marines died in a training mission crash in California. Variants of the V-22 Osprey are used by several services — the MV-22 used by the Marines, CV-22 used by the Air ...
The Air Force investigation is continuing into the Nov. 29 Air Force special operations command CV-22 crash, which killed eight service members. The crash led to a rare grounding on Dec. 6 of ...
The US military has lifted the grounding guidance for the military’s V-22 Osprey fleet, roughly three months after the entire fleet was grounded following a deadly Air Force Special Operations ...
[311] [312] [313] In the aftermath of the crash, the Japanese government asked the U.S. to ground its V-22 Osprey fleet in Japan, except in the case of emergency flights. [313] Air Force investigators identified a cracked pinion gear in the proprotor gearbox and the pilot's decision to continue the flight as causes for the crash. [314]
The U.S. military will take its first step in getting its V-22 Osprey back in the skies.. The news comes after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin endorsed a plan for a measured return to operations.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. 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 ...
WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) -The U.S. military said on Wednesday it was grounding its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft after a crash last week off the coast of Japan that killed eight people onboard.