
The United States has rejected a request from Japan to suspend all non-emergency V-22 Osprey flights over its territory after one fell into the sea on Wednesday in western Japan.
A US military aircraft with six personnel on board crashed into the sea near Japan’s Yakushima island, killing one of them last week. The crash involved an Osprey aircraft, which can function as a helicopter or a turboprop craft, and happened at about 2.47pm local time on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the coastguard.