U.S. forces resume Osprey flights in Japan amid local safety concerns

Some U.S. military Osprey aircraft took to the air in Okinawa, southern Japan, on Thursday, amid lingering local concern over the safety of the tilt-rotor military planes following a crash last year.The resumption of flights in Japan came after Washington last week lifted a worldwide flight ban on U.S. Ospreys, imposed after a U.S. Air Force CV-22 transport plane crashed off a southwestern Japan island on Nov. 29, killing all eight crew aboard.Some Ospreys' engines were started around 8:30 a.m. at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, with the aircraft beginning to take off from around 8:50 a.m…READ FULL ARTICLE