U.S. sailors assigned to the USS Comstock guide a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey during takeoff in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 8, 2025. (Sgt. Trent A. Henry/U.S. Marine Corps) On the heels of 12 major ...

Ongoing problems with the V-22 Osprey aircraft must be addressed and new systems put in place to prevent deadly accidents, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Friday. File ...

An MV-22 Osprey aircraft is used during the annual Steel Knight training exercise, Dec. 5, 2022 at Camp Pendleton, Calif. automation After a congressional hearing on Wednesday on safety concerns over ...

Anthony Krockel is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel whose most recent assignment was as the commodore of Training Air Wing FIVE responsible for undergraduate flight training for the Navy, Marine ...

The Pentagon’s troubled V-22 Osprey program recorded more serious accidents in each of the last two fiscal years than the average during any of the previous eight years, congressional auditors said, ...

In this April 5, 2018, file photo, Bell Boeing CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircrafts arrive at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo. automation The US military has lifted its flight ban on V-22 Osprey aircraft after ...

Long-running mechanical, faulty metallic alloys in the Prop-Rotor Gear Box and lack of synergy between the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have compounded the V-22 Osprey’s troubles. Faulty ...

In November 2023, a U.S. Osprey from the Yokota air base in Tokyo crashed off the island of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, ...

On the heels of 12 major mishaps in the last four years, the military's first tiltrotor aircraft program must take "immediate and decisive action" to avoid more loss and tragedy, a new comprehensive ...

Dec. 12 (UPI) --The V-22 Osprey is a highly versatile aircraft that experienced a significant rise in serious accidents in 2023 and 2024, the Government Accountability Office reported Friday. The ...