(Andover, MN) A Minnesota man is one of the airmen killed in a military aircraft crash off the coast of Japan. The Air Force says Major Jeffrey T. Hoernemann
The CV-22 Osprey was conducting a “routine training mission” at the time of the “mishap”, the Air Force said previously. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday it has identified the eight service members lost when their Osprey crashed off the coast of Japan last week and was now focused on recovering all of their bodies and the aircraft debris.
The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) on Tuesday identified the eight U.S. airmen who died in the fatal Osprey crash in southwestern Japan last week, as President Biden and other U.S. officials expressed condolences for the loss of the service members. AFSOC said in an email update that the rescue mission has now formally…
A flight surgeon from St. George was identified as one of the eight servicemen killed after a U.S. CV-22 Osprey crashed off the shore of Yakushima Island in Japan in November.
Air Force Special Operations Command has identified the eight service members lost when their Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan last week.
A fatal crash of a U.S. military Osprey airplane in Japan late last month has reignited safety concerns among local citizens, further fueled by Washington continuing to fly the tilt-rotor aircraft despite a request by Tokyo to ground them.
Dive teams located the missing crew as well as the main fuselage of the aircraft, which went down in the ocean during training, according to a Monday statement from Air Force Special Operations Command.