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More than 700 people gathered Thursday at this airlift hub for a memorial service and retreat ceremony honoring the crew of an Air Force CV-22B Osprey that crashed nearly three months ago in southern Japan, killing all aboard.

The Air Force has called off search efforts after U.S. and Japanese military search teams scoured more than 23,000 square miles of ocean surface and 15 square miles of ocean floor without finding the body of Maj. Eric Spendlove.

A U.S. Navy salvage ship recovered equipment necessary for further investigation, according to the Air Force.

U.S. forces have recovered at least a portion of the CV-22 Osprey that crashed in November off southwestern Japan, according to Air Force and Marine Corps officials.

US and Japanese crews continue to search for the remains of the last crew member killed when an Air Force CV-22B Osprey crashed off the coast of southwestern Japan last month, the Air Force said recently. 

A woman in New Mexico with a connection to this airlift hub in Japan has raised thousands of dollars for the families of airmen killed in a November Osprey crash by selling T-shirts.

This airlift hub in western Tokyo paused Wednesday morning to pay its respects as the remains of two members of a fallen Osprey crew began their journey home to the United States.

The body of Maj. Jeff Hoernemann, 32, of Andover, Minn., was discovered over the weekend by divers, the seventh crew member recovered after the CV-22B Osprey crashed off southwestern Japan with eight aboard.

The U.S. Air Force has bestowed posthumous awards upon each of the eight airmen who died Nov. 29 when their CV-22B Osprey crashed off Japan’s southwestern coast.

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 7, 2023 - The Pentagon on Wednesday grounded its entire fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft while an investigation continues into a deadly crash involving the aircraft near Japan.