TOKYO, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — The U.S. army has recovered the stays of the seventh of eight crew members who was on board of the Osprey transport plane that crashed within the waters off southwestern Japan late final month, native media reported.
The physique recovered on Sunday was one of many two crew members nonetheless lacking. Navy divers are nonetheless looking for the final lacking airman, public broadcaster NHK mentioned, citing a U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s assertion.
The Air Force CV-22 Osprey went down on Nov. 29 in waters off Japan’s southwestern island of Yakushima whereas finishing up routine coaching, killing all of the eight U.S. airmen aboard.
The U.S. army mentioned final week that it’s grounding its total fleet of V-22 Osprey plane following the deadly crash in Japan after a preliminary investigation indicated one thing went improper with the plane that was not a human error.
Variants of the V-22 Osprey are utilized by a number of companies, the MV-22 by the Marines, CV-22 by the Air Force, and CMV-22 by the Navy, with some 400, 51 and 27 Ospreys respectively, in line with U.S. media.