{"id":47569,"date":"2023-11-29T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T08:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=47569"},"modified":"2023-11-29T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T08:06:33","slug":"eight-onboard-as-us-military-aircraft-crashes-in-western-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/eight-onboard-as-us-military-aircraft-crashes-in-western-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Onboard as US Military Aircraft Crashes in Western Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TOKYO, November 29:<\/strong> A U.S. military V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed near an island in western Japan on Wednesday, carrying eight individuals, as reported by Japan\u2019s coast guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A coast guard spokesperson mentioned that patrol boats and aircraft were dispatched to the site off Japan\u2019s Yakushima island. However, no further details, including the status of those onboard, were provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A U.S. forces spokesperson in the region stated they were still in the process of gathering information about the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash occurred around 2:47 p.m. local time (0547 GMT) near the island\u2019s airport, with witnesses observing the aircraft&#8217;s left engine seemingly on fire as it descended, according to Japanese media, citing local authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aircraft vanished from radar at 2:40 p.m. local time, according to Japan&#8217;s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, a U.S. Osprey crashed off the coast of northern Australia during a routine military exercise, resulting in the deaths of three U.S. Marines. Another incident occurred in December 2016, when an Osprey crash-landed in the ocean off Japan\u2019s southern island of Okinawa, leading to a temporary U.S. military grounding of the aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tilt-rotor plane, capable of flying like both a helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft, is operated by the U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, and the Japan Self Defense Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deployment of the Osprey in Japan has sparked controversy, with critics expressing concerns about the hybrid aircraft&#8217;s accident proneness, while the U.S. military and Japan assert its safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, November 29: A U.S. military V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed near an island in western Japan on Wednesday, carrying eight individuals, as reported by Japan\u2019s coast guard. A coast guard spokesperson mentioned that patrol boats and aircraft were dispatched to the site off Japan\u2019s Yakushima island. However, no further details, including the status of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,54,22],"tags":[1032,73,1033,2628,2629],"class_list":{"0":"post-47569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-national","10":"tag-earlypostdaily","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-latestnews","13":"tag-us-military-aircraft","14":"tag-western-japan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47571,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569\/revisions\/47571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}