Firefighters gather for a search operation as a Japanese air force plane crashed after taking off for a training flight, at a pond in Inuyama, central Japan, Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Firefighters gather for a search operation as a Japanese air force plane crashed after taking off for a training flight, at a pond in Inuyama, central Japan, Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jake M. Turnage, 25, of Kennesaw, Georgia, was a flight engineer assigned to Yokota Air Base. U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Brian K. Johnson, 32, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...

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An Air Force Osprey crash off Japan in 2023 that killed eight airmen was caused by a “catastrophic failure” of the aircraft’s gearbox and the pilot’s “insufficient sense of urgency” to ...

Several missing after Osprey crash as Japan asks U.S. to ground aircraft 03:25. The U.S. Air Force announced Wednesday that it is grounding its entire fleet of Osprey aircraft after investigators ...

An Air Force crew chief assigned to the 21st Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron marshals a CV-22B Osprey at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 2, 2024. (Samantha White/U.S. Air Force) ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan suspended flights by its Osprey aircraft Thursday, officials said, the day after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission.

The crashed plane was a 36-year-old T-4 operated out of Nyutabaru Air Base, in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki. It was not fitted with a voice recorder or a flight data recorder.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s air force chief on Thursday confirmed the deaths of two service members whose training aircraft crashed last week. The T-4 plane with two aboard crashed into a reservoir ...