An Osprey, a hybrid aircraft of horizontal and vertical landing-takeoff, of the American armed forces, crashed today in the sea, off the southern Japanwith 8 passengers, announced the Japanese Coast Guard.
Syesterday we received information at 14:47 (07:47 Greek time), according to which an Osprey of the American armed forces crashed near the island of Yakushimaa spokesman for the Japanese coast guard said when asked by AFP.
His team consisted of 8 people, the spokeswoman added.
According to the Japanese public television network NHK, this aircraft had departed from the US Air Force Base in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, in western Japan, to go to another US military base in Okinawa, on the southwestern tip of the Japanese archipelago.
The Osprey, a collaboration between the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing and the helicopter specialist Bell, has been the subject of discussion for a long time due to several accidents that have occurred with this aircraft.
In late August, three US Marines were killed in an Osprey crash in northern Australia.
Source: News Beast
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