Pentagon to lift ban on Osprey helicopter flights after fatal crash

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/02/24 9:44 AM ET


The Pentagon will lift its ban on V-22 Osprey flights next week, after the helicopters were grounded last December after a fatal crash. The news comes after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held a high-level meeting and endorses the military’s plan for the helicopters to resume operations, The Associated Press reported.

In early December, the Air Force grounded its entire Osprey fleet after there was a fatal crash in Japan that killed eight U.S. service members. The operational grounding of about 400 aircraft was intended to “mitigate risk” while there was an investigation into the deadly crash.

Japan had repeatedly expressed concern with the hybrid aircraft after an initial crash near Okinawa happened in 2016. The most recent crash prompted a search and rescue mission, after the eight men aboard the flight were missing for days.

Officials said Friday that the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), which grounded the Osprey, will lift the ban and allow services to begin again. Floyd met with top leaders for the Navy and Air Force to discuss getting the Osprey in the air again, per the AP.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4503262-pentagon-to-lift-ban-on-osprey-helicopter-flights/

[AllaN01Bear]

1. osperys aircraft arnt helecopters , they are convertaplanes .

[BumRushDaShow]

2. IOW

one of these -

[VMA131Marine]

3. Ground resonance

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_resonance#:~:text=Ground%20resonance%20is%20an%20imbalance,helicopter%20on%20its%20landing%20gear.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Good ole physics!

[AllaN01Bear]

5. annoying and funny at the same time with the smile at the beginning. poor whirly bird.

[Mawspam2]

6. Verticle/Short Take Off and Landing Tilt-Rotor Fixed Wing Aircraft

[Orrex]

7. And occasionally they don't crash.

[pfitz59]

13. The flight controls are cyclic and collective

same as a helicopter. With the added switch to tilt the rotes once airborne.

[Warpy]

8. Good. I hate it when they do training flights over my city,

those things are LOUD. The cats would freak out, the house would shake, I had to adjust all the art (such as it was) on the walls because it had been knocked crooked.

That thing didn't need guns. It would rattle an enemy to death.

[twodogsbarking]

9. No thanks. No.

[Prairie Gates]

10. Start the clock for the next crash...Over/Under 16 months

[Crowman2009]

11. I remember back at MCAS Yuma in 2000 when those prototypes were crashing.

The XO of the test squadron was also falsifying maintenance records.