U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashes off Japan island, 1 dead

A U.S. military Osprey aircraft with six people on board crashed Wednesday near a small island off the coast of southwestern Japan, with a man believed to be one of the crew members confirmed dead, the Japan Coast Guard said.The CV-22 transport aircraft, belonging to Yokota Air Base in the western suburbs of Tokyo, disappeared from radar at around 2:40 p.m. off the island of Yakushima, according to the Japanese Defense Ministry. The U.S. Air Force said the tilt-rotor aircraft, assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Wing, had eight airmen on board.The coast guard had initially said eight p…READ FULL ARTICLE