US Military Osprey With 8 Crew Crashes Off Japan

Handout photo dated April 23, 2013 shows landing signalman enlisted direct an MV-22 Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 161 onto the flight deck aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Anchorage (LPD 23). A US Osprey military aircraft with eight crew on board crashed on Wednesday off a Japanese island, the coastguard said, in the latest accident involving the tilt-rotor military aircraft. The Osprey, developed by Bell Helicopters and Boeing and which can operate like a helicopter or a fixed-wing plane, has suffered a string of fatal crashes over the years. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Alexander Quiles via ABACAPRESS.COM