The US Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps have grounded their fleet of Boeing-Bell-made Osprey V-22s on safety grounds.
A spokesperson for the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) told The Register that the decision had been made following an incident where one of the aircraft made an emergency landing.
...The move comes after a V-22, operating out of the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) in Florida, was forced to make a "precautionary landing," its spokesperson told us. No one was injured in the incident.
The decision comes barely a year after the last grounding of the V-22 fleet, which came after a fatal crash by a V-22 operated by the Air Force which killed both pilots and six passengers. The cause of that crash was reportedly one of the two engines failed, and the fleet was grounded for three months of checks.
The V-22 is too complex and too expensive, and keeps killing its passengers.
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That plane has NEVER been right! It's cool to watch in flight. You just sit there and say "How does that thing fly???" Apparently Boeing sits there and says the same thing...
This is why the Army is getting the Bell V-280 Valor.
Because buying new, upgraded, modern, ordinary helicopters, is too cost effective, efficient and doesn't enrich the Crony Capitalist, oligarchs enough. Also, ordinary helos don't kill enough people.
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