TOKYO, Nov 29 — A US Osprey military aircraft with eight crew on board crashed at this time off the coast of Japan, the coastguard mentioned.
“We obtained data at 2.47pm at this time that the US military’s Osprey crashed off Yakushima Island,” a spokeswoman advised eNM.
“We had been additionally notified that there have been eight crew members on board,” she added. “There is not any additional data in the meanwhile.”
The island of Yakushima lies south of Japan’s southernmost most important island Kyushu.
The crash comes after one other Osprey crashed in northern Australia in August, killing three US marines amongst 23 on board.
The Boeing MV-22B Osprey crashed on Melville Island, north of Darwin throughout a military train for domestically primarily based troops. — eNM
