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No crew hurt, aircraft undamaged after U.S. Osprey conducts emergency landing in Kagoshima

11 Jun 2017 22:42:55

japantimes.co.jp

A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft was undamaged and no crew members were injured after an emergency landing Saturday at Amami airport in Kagoshima Prefecture, a Japanese government source said.


The U.S. military explained it was a preventive landing to avoid an accident, the source said. The tilt-rotor transport aircraft landed at the airport on Amami Island shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday.


According to the Defense Ministry’s Okinawa Defense Bureau, the aircraft belongs to the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on the island prefecture, home to the bulk of U.S. military facilities in the country. It was conducting routine training.


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