US military Osprey crash off Yakushima
Special Operations Command 353rd Special Operations Wing (United States military) Bell/Boeing CV-22 · Encountered an abnormal situation in flight and attempted an emergency landing at Yakushima Airport, but crashed into the sea
From Iwakuni Air Base, Yamaguchi Prefecture to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa Prefecture
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Bell/Boeing CV-22
- Aircraft type
- Bell/boeing CV-22
- Category
- Powered-Lift · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Iwakuni Air Base, Yamaguchi PrefectureTo Kadena Air Base, Okinawa Prefecture
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The US military Osprey crash off Yakushima (Yakushima-oki beigun Osupurei tsuiraku jiko) was an accident on 29 November 2023 in which a United States Air Force CV-22B Osprey based at Yokota Air Base crashed off Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture. The United States Air Force stated that the accident occurred during routine training.
It was the first hull-loss and fatal accident involving an Osprey in Japan.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Japanese Wikipedia article “屋久島沖米軍オスプレイ墜落事故” (revision 110744974, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Japanese Wikipedia article: 屋久島沖米軍オスプレイ墜落事故
- Article
- 屋久島沖米軍オスプレイ墜落事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 110744974 · 2026-08-23 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q123591920
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ja Wikipedia article "屋久島沖米軍オスプレイ墜落事故" (page 4860702, revision 110744974), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Japanese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.