US congressional investigation of a military aircraft

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, an oversight committee of the US Congress conducted an investigation into the V-22 Osprey vertical flight military aircraft project after the latest fatal crash of this aircraft at the end of November in Japan and killed Eight soldiers of the American Air Force launched a special operation in this incident.

According to the news agency “Associated Press”, following the crash of an Osprey military plane of the American army stationed in Japan during a training mission. On November 29, the entire fleet of this aircraft model was grounded, except for a limited number of them, which are dedicated to the emergency flights of the Marine Corps unit. Osprey in the US Army, so far more than 50 American soldiers have lost their lives in multiple crashes of these planes, 20 of which are related to four crashes that happened within the last 20 months.

The Osprey vertical plane has the ability to fly both vertically like a helicopter and like a normal plane, but the numerous crashes of this plane have prompted critics to warn about flaws in its design.

The Japanese government is the only US international partner that uses these planes, but since the November 29 crash, it has also grounded its Osprey fleet.

The Oversight and Accountability Committee of the US House of Representatives sent a letter to Lloyd Austin, the Minister of Defense of this country, on Thursday, requesting the delivery of a significant amount of documents related to the safety of Osprey planes to this committee by January 4th.

James Comer, the Republican chairman of the committee, wrote in the letter: “Our soldiers will be at risk if the known mechanical defects of these aircraft are not resolved. Statistically speaking, Osprey aircraft are not considered as dangerous as some other military aircraft, but our committee is concerned that most of the fatal crashes of this aircraft occurred during training maneuvers and not during combat operations. p class=”rtejustify”>Several US senators, including Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, and Richard Neal, all of whom are Democrats, have recently announced that they will demand that Lloyd Austin be held accountable for issues related to the safety of Osprey aircraft.

Osprey aircraft became operational in 2007 after decades of testing. Since then, these planes have become one of the main components of the operations of the Marine Corps and the Special Operations Command of the US Air Force. He found a technical defect in the plane and said that the flight crew did not make a mistake.

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