{"id":84061,"date":"2023-11-29T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/us-military-aircraft-with-six-people-on-board-crashes-off-japanese-island-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T12:58:34","slug":"us-military-aircraft-with-six-people-on-board-crashes-off-japanese-island-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/us-military-aircraft-with-six-people-on-board-crashes-off-japanese-island-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US military aircraft with six people on board crashes off Japanese island | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least one person has died after a US military aircraft crashed off the coast of a Japanese island.<\/p>\n

Six crew members were on board the Osprey aircraft when it crashed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Japanese coastguard said one crew member had been found – and was later pronounced dead – along with grey-coloured debris believed to be from the aircraft.<\/p>\n

They were found at sea around half a mile off the eastern coast of Yakushima.<\/p>\n

The cause of the crash and the status of the other people on the aircraft were not immediately known.<\/p>\n

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Fishing boats in the area found three people in the surrounding waters, a representative of a local fisheries cooperative said. Their condition is unknown.<\/p>\n

Another Osprey landed safely at the island’s airport on Wednesday, at around the time of the crash.<\/p>\n

“The government will confirm information about the damage and place the highest priority on saving lives,” Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters.<\/p>\n

The Osprey is a hybrid aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but during flight can rotate its propellers forward and cruise much faster like an aeroplane.<\/p>\n

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US and Japanese officials said the aircraft belonged to Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo.<\/p>\n

In Okinawa, where about half of the 50,000 American troops in Japan are based, Governor Denny Tamaki told reporters he will ask the US military to suspend all Osprey flights in Japan.<\/p>\n

In August, a US Osprey crashed off the coast of northern Australia, killing three Marines<\/strong> and seriously injuring five others.<\/p>\n

Another crash-landed in the ocean off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa in December 2016, prompting a temporary US military grounding of the aircraft.<\/p>\n

It also comes after five US service members were killed<\/strong> after their aircraft suffered a “mishap” during a routine air refuelling mission in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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