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The Osprey, flown by the Marines, Navy and Air Force, has crashed or been involved in an accident dozens of times, killing more than 60 people since it was rolled out nearly 40 years ago.
At the time of the mishap, the V-22's flight operations rules restricted the Osprey to a descent rate of 800 feet per minute (4.1 m/s) at airspeeds below 40 knots (74 km/h) (restrictions typical of helicopters); the crew of the accident aircraft had descended at over twice this rate. [16]
The U.S. military will take its first step in getting its V-22 Osprey back in the skies.. The news comes after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin endorsed a plan for a measured return to operations.
In August 2023, three US Marines were killed in an MV-22 crash — the Marine Corps’ Osprey variant — during an exercise in Australia. In March 2022, four US troops were killed in an MV-22 ...
Osprey producers Bell Flight, the Boeing Co. and Rolls-Royce, which supplies the engines, are facing a new lawsuit from families of the five Marines killed in the 2022 California crash. The ...
Last week’s crash is not the only fatal incident involving a US Osprey. Four fatal Osprey crashes, including last week’s accident, have claimed the lives of at least 13 American troops in the ...
The crash raised new questions about the safety of the Osprey, which has been involved in multiple fatal accidents over its relatively short time in service. Japan grounded its fleet of 14 Ospreys ...
An Air Force Osprey crash off Japan in 2023 that killed eight airmen was caused by a “catastrophic failure ... NBC News obtained a redacted safety investigation report from a 2017 Air Force ...