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Setting the Record Straight on the Safety of the V-22 Osprey
A U.S. Air Force CV-22B Osprey assigned to the 21st Special Operations
Squadron, takes flight for the first time since last November at Yokota Air
Base, Japan, on July 2 (U.S. Air Force Photo
By Robert Kenney, Defense Opinion Writer. Robert is a retired Marine Corps colonel with over 5,000
flight hours in the H-1, H-46 and H-53, among other aircraft.
The Pentagon has released two reports in recent
weeks that detail the official investigations into the causes of two fatal
Osprey accidents in 2023. These reports have been followed by media stories
delving deeper into the issues raised in the official reports.
The report on the Marine Corps MV-22 accident on Aug. 27, 2023, that took
the lives of three service members, has pointed to operator error as the clear
causal factor, not the aircraft. The report also focused on squadron
leadership who “permitted cultural issues that disregarded safety of flight.”
The report on the Air Force CV-22 that crashed off Japan on Nov. 29, 2023,
killing eight airmen is more complicated. It implicated both a failure of
material and subsequent operator error in decision-making that rendered a
serious but salvageable situation impossible from which to recover.
As a former Marine Corps pilot with over 5,000
flight hours and as an engineer, I want to help set the record straight on the
safety of the V-22, which can take off and land like a helicopter and tilt its
rotors and fly like an airplane, faster and at greater altitudes than a
helicopter.
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