(Washington) The eight soldiers aboard a US Army Osprey aircraft which crashed into the sea on November 29 off southwest Japan are now all considered dead, the US Army announced on Tuesday. looks American.
Authorities have found six bodies, including five on Monday, but the operations are no longer considered rescue because it is “unlikely” to find any survivors, the US Air Force Special Operations Command said in a statement. communicated.
“Of the eight soldiers, the remains of three have been recovered, three others are in the process of being recovered and the bodies of two soldiers remain to be found,” he said.
Ospreys are military aircraft that can take off and land vertically like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. Several recent accidents have brought to light questions about their reliability.
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An Osprey CV-22
This copy sank at sea last Wednesday, with eight people on board, not far from the island of Yakushima, during a training mission – the American army has some 54,000 soldiers stationed in Japan.
At the end of August, three US Marines were killed in the accident of an aircraft of this type in northern Australia and, in 2022, four others died in Norway when their Osprey crashed during training exercises. NATO
Japan has suspended flights of its own Ospreys since Wednesday’s accident and has asked the US military to do the same on Japanese territory as a precaution.