US military Osprey aircraft crashes in western Japan with eight onboard
US military aircraft crashes in western Japan with eight onboard
A U.S. military V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed near an island in western Japan on Wednesday with eight people onboard, Japan’s coast guard said.
A spokesperson for the coast guard said it had deployed patrol boats and aircraft to the site off Japan’s Yakushima island, but had no further details of the incident, including the status of those onboard.
A spokesperson for U.S. forces in the region said they were still gathering information about the incident.
