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Tokyo (CNN) — Search and rescue operations are underway after a US special operations aircraft crashed off the shore of Japan’s Yakushima Island on Wednesday.

Rescuers scoured waters off Japan on Thursday for seven missing US Air Force personnel whose Osprey crashed during a training exercise, in the latest incident involving the tilt-rotor military aircraft.

Tokyo has also asked the US military to ground all Ospreys operating in Japan except for those searching for victims of the crash.

Amid a search for 7 crew members still missing after a U.S. military Osprey crashed into the sea, Japan wants the U.S. to ground the planes until they're proven safe.

TOKYO (AP) — A U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed during a training mission Wednesday off of the countrys southern coast, killing at least one of t

TOKYO -- A U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed during a training mission Wednesday off of the countrys southern coast, killing at least one of the eight crew members, the Japanese coast guard said.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan plans to suspend its own Osprey flights after a US Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into waters off the southern coast during a training mission, reports said Thursday. Kyodo news agency says a senior Defence Ministry official, Taro Yamato, told a parliamentary hearing that Japan plans to suspend flights […]

Japan suspended its own Osprey flights Thursday after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission

Tokyo’s decision to ground the aircraft follows a crash involving a US Osprey on Wednesday, that killed at least one of the eight crew members.

Ospreys have had a number of crashes, including in Japan, where they are used at U.S. and Japanese military bases. | World News