W ASHINGTON (AP) — A deadly Osprey aircraft crash last November off Japan was caused by cracks in a metal gear and the pilot’s decision to keep flying rather than heed multiple warnings that ...

as one of two factors that caused the crash off Japan. The Air Force also faulted the pilot and crew, because the Osprey sent six warnings during their flight that the proprotor gearbox was in ...

First introduced in 2007, the V-22 Osprey is a tiltrotor aircraft ... are still working to determine what exactly caused the crash in Japan. "Should that investigation yield results that require ...

Japan requested U.S. Forces Japan ground Osprey transport aircraft, and the JGSDF grounded its own Ospreys amid U.S. Air Force safety concerns.

The news comes less than a year after a deadly November CV-22 Osprey crash in Japan that claimed the lives of eight airmen.

Two of the recent deadly crashes were caused partly by catastrophic ... causing the Osprey to invert and crash off the coast of Japan. About 60% of the command’s 51 CV-22B aircraft already ...

Although the Osprey has a long history of accidents, the latest deadly crash in Japan ... on the crashed CV-22 off Japan indicated a potential materiel failure caused the mishap.

WASHINGTON--A deadly Osprey aircraft crash last November off Japan was caused by cracks in a metal gear and the pilot’s decision to keep flying rather than heed multiple warnings that he should ...

as one of two factors that caused the crash off Japan. The Air Force also faulted the pilot and crew, because the Osprey sent six warnings during their flight that the proprotor gearbox was in ...

Two of the recent deadly crashes were caused partly by catastrophic and unprecedented ... failures across the aircraft's drive system, causing the Osprey to invert and crash off the coast of Japan.