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Pilot error blamed [of course] for fatal US military Osprey crash that killed four marines in Norway during a NATO training flight
2022-08-17
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • An investigation has concluded that the MV-22B crash in Bodø, Norway, is the result of pilot error
    Apparently Ospreys like to crash, too.
  • The March 18 incident led to the deaths of four Marines

  • Aircraft was being used as a NATO training exercise preparing allied forces for 'extreme and rugged surroundings'

  • A Marines Corps. finding determined the aircraft lost too much airspeed and altitude while entering a valley which the crew could not recover from
    That definitely sounds like a crash...
  • Captain Ross A. Reynolds, Captain Matthew J. Tomkiewicz, Gunnery Sergeant James W. Speedy and Corporal Jacob M. Moore died in the crash
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MV-22B: 2015-03-28 Twenty percent of USMC aircraft are grounded
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  They fly near daily over my abode on their way to/from @ Miramar - Yuma. Hope they stay at altitude
Posted by: Frank G   2022-08-17 20:25  

#6  They mean: The pilot made an error when he got into the damned aircraft.
Posted by: Matt   2022-08-17 17:54  

#5  ^ or New Mexico.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-17 17:47  

#4  Those damn things all belong in the Arizona desert.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-17 16:44  

#3  Air Force Special Operations Command grounds CV-22 Osprey aircraft over safety concerns: report
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2022-08-17 16:21  

#2  The Ospreys are inherently dangerous.

The main reasons is due to the gyroscopic effects of the propellers and turbines with all those rotating parts.

As an experiment, take a bicycle wheel or a gyroscope (toy ones works too) and note the angle of the axle, vertical or horizontal. Spin it up and try to go from one angle to the other, i.e: from vertical to horizontal and vs versa. note the effect of doing so.

The Ospreys has two of them.

Pilot error, my ass! It's the design!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2022-08-17 15:14  

#1  Advice: Avoid all unplanned merging with the land/sky interface
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-17 00:55  

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