US military Osprey aircraft with 6 aboard crashes off southern Japan, at least 1 dead

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US military Osprey aircraft with 6 aboard crashes off southern Japan, at least 1 dead
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Updated 6:20 AM EST, November 29, 2023

TOKYO (AP) — A crew member who was recovered from the ocean after a U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying six people crashed Wednesday off southern Japan has been pronounced dead, coast guard officials said.

The cause of the crash and the status of the five others on the aircraft were not immediately known, coast guard spokesperson Kazuo Ogawa said. Initial reports said the aircraft was carrying eight people, but the U.S. military later revised the number to six, he said.

The coast guard received an emergency call from a fishing boat near the crash site off Yakushima, an island south of Kagoshima on the southern main island of Kyushu, he said.

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