A U.S. army plane crashed close to a small island off the coast of southern Japan on Wednesday with eight folks onboard. Japan’s Coast Guard mentioned that not less than a kind of on the craft had been confirmed lifeless.
The plane, a CV-22 Osprey operated by the U.S. Air Pressure, crashed shut to three p.m. close to Yakushima, in keeping with a spokesman for the Japanese Coast Guard, which is conducting a rescue operation.
The crash got here simply three months after three U.S. Marines died in one other Osprey accident throughout a coaching train in Australia.
Round 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday, the prefectural police in Kagoshima, the place Yakushima is situated, acquired a report that the Osprey, with one in all its engines burning, had crashed on a seashore close to the Yakushima airport, in keeping with Hiroki Shimano, an official in Kagoshima Prefecture’s disaster administration division.
The plane had misplaced radar contact earlier than the crash, Hirokazu Matsuno, chief cupboard secretary to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, mentioned in a information briefing.
Round 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Japan’s Coast Guard mentioned {that a} rescue crew had discovered one member of the Osprey’s crew, and that the individual was “unconscious and never respiratory.” That individual was later confirmed lifeless.
The Osprey, which is manufactured by Boeing and Bell Textron, each American aerospace corporations, is a singular plane that may take off and land vertically. The CV-22s, that are operated primarily by the Air Pressure, have been stationed at Yokota Air Base in Japan since 2018.0
Itsunori Onodera, a former protection minister and present lawmaker, posted on X, previously Twitter, that the crash was “a worrying matter.”
“Now we have requested the Ministry of Protection and the Japan Coast Guard to do their finest to rescue the plane,” he wrote, including, “To begin with, we should rescue the crew and request secure flight. I hope the crew can be rescued quickly.”
