Osprey’s safety issues spiked over 5 years and caused deaths, but pilots still want to fly it
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An MV-22 Osprey takes off as Japan Ground Self-Defense Force guards the landing zone during a joint military drill with U.S. Marines in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, March 15, 2022.
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Osprey pilots Capt. Christian Eells, left, and Capt. Matthew Gulotta stand Oct. 8, 2024, at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., beside a memorial to the Air Force Special Operations Command Osprey callsign “Gundam 22” that crashed off the coast of Japan in November 2023, killing all eight service members aboard.
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Brian Luce, left, speaks with museum visitor Ben Perkins inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio.
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Osprey flight engineer Tech Sgt. Brett McGee sits on the back open ramp of the V-22 and holds the aircraft’s .50 caliber gun as the crew flies over a New Mexico training range Oct. 9, 2024, near Cannon Air Force Base.
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Wreckage from a V-22 Osprey that crashed during NATO exercise Cold Response is seen in Beiarn, Norway, April 4, 2022. The bodies of four Marines who died in a military aircraft crash during a NATO exercise have been transferred back to the U.S. The U.S. Marine Corps said an Osprey aircraft crashed on March 18 in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle, killing the four Marines.
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U.S. Osprey transport aircraft participate in the combined military amphibious landing exercise between South Korea and the U.S., called Ssangyong exercise, in Pohang, South Korea, Sept. 2, 2024.
