The U. S. military on Saturday began inspecting two Osprey aircraft at a commercial airport in Okinawa after one was forced into an emergency landing the previous day. The incident came on the heels of other emergency landings and crashes involving the tilt-rotor aircraft in Japan…
The U. S. military on Saturday began inspecting two Osprey aircraft at a commercial airport in Okinawa after one was forced into an emergency landing the previous day.
The incident came on the heels of other emergency landings and crashes involving the tilt-rotor aircraft in Japan and overseas. Osprey aircraft have caused concerns, particularly among residents of Japan’s southern island prefecture, since their deployment in 2012 at a U. S. base there.
The emergency touch-down at Ishigaki airport Friday afternoon was followed hours later by reports that another Osprey crashed while taking part in an operation against Islamic State in Syria, leaving two U.
