This file photo taken on March 15, 2022 shows a US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft landing during a joint exercise with Japanese Self Defense Forces members at the Higashifuji training area in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture. Photo Credit: AFP
A US Osprey military aircraft with eight crew on board crashed on Wednesday off the coast of Japan, the coastguard said.“We received information at 2:47 pm (0547 GMT) today that the US military’s Osprey crashed off Yakushima Island,” a spokeswoman told AFP.“We were also notified that there were eight crew members on board,” she added. “There is no further information at the moment.”The island of Yakushima lies south of Japan’s southernmost main island Kyushu.
The crash comes after another Osprey crashed in northern Australia in August, killing three US marines among 23 on board.
The Boeing MV-22B Osprey crashed on Melville Island, north of Darwin during a military exercise for locally based troops.
Earlier in this same month of November, five American service members have been killed in a military plane crash over the eastern Mediterranean Sea during a training exercise.
The US European Command (EUCOM) on Sunday said all five crew members were killed when the aircraft went down on Friday evening “during a routine air refuelling mission as part of military training.”
AFP