Air Force to deploy Ospreys in weeks
Air Force to deploy Ospreys in weeks as post-crash groundings lift
The military grounded Ospreys after a fatal crash in November 2023, and Air Force Special Operations Command is gradually returning them to the air.
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The news comes less than a year after a deadly November CV-22 Osprey crash in Japan that claimed the lives of eight airmen.
Air Force’s Ospreys will return to forward-deployment within 'weeks'
The Pentagon grounded its entire fleet of Ospreys in late 2023 after a deadly crash off the coast of Japan killed eight airmen in November. The aircraft were cleared to fly again in March with some limitations: flights and missions have to stay within 30 minutes of a “suitable divert airfield.”
US Air Force Ospreys will return to combat duty in coming weeks
The Bell-Boeing CV-22 tiltrotors will soon return to combat duty, 10 months after a deadly crash in 2023 killed eight special mission airmen and grounded the USA's entire Osprey fleet.
Air Force to deploy Osprey aircraft in weeks following review over deadly crash
Air Force Special Operations Command says it is weeks from deploying its fleet of CV-22B Osprey aircraft for counter terror operations, after grounding its crews in the wake of a fatal crash last November in Japan.
Air Force to deploy Ospreys again within 'weeks,' pilots to receive new mid-flight protocols
Ospreys will return to conducting missions for the combatant commands in "weeks," Lt. Gen. Michael Conley, commander of the service's Special Operations Command, said yesterday. The forward deployment would mark the first time the tiltrotors operate in the field after a deadly crash 11 months ago led the Pentagon to ground the aircraft until March.
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