{"id":136530,"date":"2024-03-08T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=136530"},"modified":"2024-03-08T21:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:27:27","slug":"navy-clears-return-to-flight-for-v-22-osprey-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=136530","title":{"rendered":"Navy Clears Return to Flight for V-22 Osprey Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Naval Air Systems Command has cleared the tiltrotor V-22 Osprey to return to flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft have been grounded since Dec. 6, 2023. That followed the crash of an Air Force V-22 Osprey off the coast of Japan that killed eight airmen on Nov. 29, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision follows a meticulous and data-driven approach prioritizing the safety of our aircrews,&#8221; a Navy official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>Lifting the grounding means the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force can return the aircraft to service.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Navy grounded the aircraft when Air Force officials investigating the Japan crash found &#8220;a materiel failure of a V-22 component.&#8221; Officials used the time to do a thorough review of the mishap and test risk-mitigation controls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All of the services worked together to ensure the aircraft is safe, officials said during a call with reporters. They would not identify the component that failed, but they said the processes they put in place will allow a safe return to flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The services all have different processes in returning the aircraft to the skies. &#8220;Maintenance and procedural changes have been implemented to address the materiel failure that allow for a safe return to flight,&#8221; the Naval Air Systems Command official said. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naval Air Systems Command has cleared the tiltrotor V-22 Osprey to return to flight.\u00a0 The aircraft have been grounded since Dec. 6, 2023. That followed the crash of an Air Force V-22 Osprey off the coast of Japan that killed eight airmen on Nov. 29, 2023.\u00a0 &#8220;This decision follows a meticulous and data-driven approach prioritizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":136532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136533,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136530\/revisions\/136533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}