The U.S. military announced that the Osprey helicopter is cleared for take off just months after eight airmen were killed when a Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed off of the coast of Japan. It was the fourth fatal crash of the aircraft in less than two years.
The crash of an Air Force Osprey aircraft eight months ago in Japan that killed all eight airmen on board was caused by a “catastrophic failure” of one of the aircraft’s proprotor gearboxes and the pilot’s “insufficient sense of urgency” to land immediately in response to electronic warnings in the cockpit, according to a crash investigation by the U.S. military released Thursday.
The report notes this decision “did not indicate a sense of urgency commensurate” with the situation. After telling the airport he was seeking an emergency landing, and just minutes before the crash, Hoernemann received a “chip detector fail” advisory. That led him say aloud in the cockpit that “he was no longer worried since he assumed the previous warnings were errors due to a faulty chip detector,” according to a cockpit recording cited in the accident report.
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