Japan 'concerned' US continues to fly Ospreys despite grounding request
Japan 'concerned' US continues to fly Ospreys despite grounding request
The key US ally had sought the suspension of all non-emergency V-22 Osprey flights over its territory after one fell into the sea on Wednesday in western Japan.
I had a friend whose dad worked on the v-22 program, knew a number of the engineers and guys who died on the early flights.
One night while he was “loose” he said that the plane was pretty safe and a lot of accidents are actually a fantastic way to explain the death of people they need to explain the deaths of.
It’s my favorite conspiracy theory, that these accidents are just battle casualties for things they don’t want to admit. That the v-22 is an “accident farm”
edit: for the sake of clarity, there is no evidence whatsoever for this at all. It was literally someone talking shit and they could have (and probably were) just been talking nonsense anyways. It’s fun to think of in the way a video game plot is fun.
I have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, but I like thinking it
What an insane thing to repeat without any evidence.
I’ve literally said from start to finish it’s a wild conspiracy theory with no evidence, I have no reason to believe it’s true nor should anyone who saw what I said.
And I’ll add some “in case you’re a moron boilerplate” to it
Though in this scenario I’d be a 3rd party source, as I heard it from a first party. My credibility is suspect as you don’t know how valid my claim is anyways.
Until the cause of this one is determined, the only V-22 crash that wasn't pilot error was due to a maintenance error where a mechanic wired the controls backwards.
Pilot error is rarely the actual cause, but is a convenient scapegoat. I worked in rotary accident investigation in the Army and that’s not something you’ll read in a report. There’s other issues; why is this aircraft in particular so prone to pilot error? Perhaps it’s poorly designed?
It's because it's a heavy rotorcraft. Not poor design, just rotorcraft physics. It's prone to enter a vortex ring state if the descent rate in relation to forward velocity is too high. The same thing can happen with any normal helicopter, but the V-22 has a lot of weight for the disk area of it's rotors, giving stronger vortices from the rotors.
It's a pilot training thing, but I think they did put some sort of alert system on it if it's getting close to the conditions that induce VRS.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_ring_state
https://verticalmag.com/news/ntsb-report-virginia-state-police-helicopter-crash/
Interesting, I heard it had a very bad reputation for it's reliability, but I guess it's just that it's extremely hard to control then.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Japan's Coast Guard has said one person was found and confirmed dead, and the search for the remaining seven aboard continues.
Asked about that statement, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Hirokazu Matsuno, said Tokyo had "officially" made the request.
"We are concerned that despite our repeated requests, and in the absence of sufficient explanation (from the U.S. military), the Osprey continues to fly," he told a news conference.
The deployment of the hybrid aircraft in Japan has been controversial, with critics of the U.S. military presence in the southwest islands saying it is prone to accidents.
Pacifist Japan hosts the biggest overseas concentration of U.S. military power, with the country home to the only forward-deployed American carrier strike group, its Asian airlift hub, fighter squadrons and a U.S. Marine Corps expeditionary force.
Dujarric said that he did not expect the issue to "blow up" into a major diplomatic spat between the allies, who have been forging closer ties in the face of China's increasingly muscular military stance in the region.
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If I was a pilot, I'd also be concerned about using an Osprey. I've heard from people who've flown them how much they fucking suck and are hard to fly.