The U.S. military’s Yokota Air Base in a western suburb of Tokyo was opened to the public in a two-day event through Sunday, with an Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft among exhibits. Visitors to the Japan-American Friendship Festival formed a long line to see the aircraft. In November last year, a U.S. Air … Read more
Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force resumed Thursday flights of its Ospreys near Tokyo, almost four months after suspending them due to a deadly crash of a U.S. military Osprey off a southwestern Japanese island. The move came a week after U.S. forces resumed Osprey operations in Japan following their lifting of a worldwide flight ban on … Read more
By Tara Copp | Associated Press WASHINGTON — 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 of Japan. The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps took the extraordinary step of grounding … Read more
By Colin McCullough | CNN Wreckage and remains from a United States Air Force CV-22B Osprey that crashed off the coast of Yakushima Island, Japan, last week were discovered on Monday, according to a statement from Air Force Special Operations Command. “During a combined U.S.-Japanese search and rescue dive in the vicinity of Yakushima, Japan … Read more
In a heartbreaking turn of events, U.S. and Japanese rescuers located wreckage and identified the remains of five crew members from the Osprey military aircraft that crashed off Japan last week, leaving two members still missing. The U.S. military announced the discovery on Monday, following a joint search operation near the island of Yakushima.The U.S.Air … Read more
Kagoshima – The Japan Coast Guard said Wednesday that it had received an emergency call saying an Osprey tilt-rotor plane had crashed off the coast of Yakushima island in Kagoshima Prefecture. According to the 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, the call came around 2:45 p.m. and eight people were said to be on board the … Read more