US and Japan Conclude Search in Fatal Osprey Plane Crash
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The US and Japan finished a search, rescue and salvage operation for an Osprey military aircraft and its eight airmen who died when it crashed off a Japanese island, prompting the Pentagon to ground its fleet of the tilt-rotor planes.
The search that lasted more than 40 days for the aircraft that went down off of Japan’s southwest island of Yakushima on Nov. 29 involved more than 1,000 personnel, 46 aircraft and unmanned underwater systems, US Air Force Special Operations Command said in a statement Friday.