Shailesh Kumar, National Defence
New Delhi, 04 December, 2023
US and Japanese divers have discovered wreckage debri and remains of five crew members from a US Air Force Osprey aircraft that crashed last week off southwestern Japan, the US Air Force announced on Monday.
CV-22B Osprey assigned to the US Air Force’s 353rd Special Operations Wing crashed into the East China Sea approximately one kilometer (0.6 mile) off Yakushima Island, Japan on 29 November 2023, killing all eight crewmembers aboard.
The Osprey, based at Yokota Air Base in Western Tokyo, was flying from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa Island in clear weather and light winds with eight service members aboard at the time of the crash.
Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft flying inverted with flames engulfing the aircraft’s left nacelle before an explosion occurred and the aircraft subsequently crashed in waters east of the island near Yakushima Airport.
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