The Pentagon was aware of mechanical flaws in one of its Osprey aircraft nearly a decade before it crashed, Military.com reported on Thursday.
The Air Force’s Osprey program — a fleet of aircraft that can take off like a helicopter vertically and fly like a plane horizontally using tiltrotor propellers— has long been troubled with technical and safety issues over decades, sometimes resulting in fatal accidents. An Osprey aircraft, call sign Gundam 22, suffered a mechanical failure during flight operations and crashed off the coast of Japan in November, killing eight airmen and prompting an investigation, the findings of which were released this month.
But the problems with the Gundam 22 Osprey had been identified in a separate internal Air Force safety investigation in 2013, according to internal documents obtained by Military.com. Specifically, the investigation had found that the Osprey’s gearbox was faulty — this would go on to be the reason it crashed in 2023, as the gearbox was tripped apart and caused the left propeller to stop operating.
The Air Force brought its findings to the Pentagon in 2014, according to Military.com. But the Pentagon did not fully conclude that the risks outlined in the investigation would be acceptable or managed.
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