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Senior Pilot
An update with the release of some footage of the fatal crash:
I guess the US Navy's preference for keeping aircraft accident investigation reports away from the public is still alive and well.
The investigation report makes clear that no one was at fault in the incident and that all three personnel died in the line of duty...
A former colleague tells quite a different witness story as to who was to blame and it wasn't those on-board the Osprey. Many crews and squadrons had expressed repeated concerns as to what they were frequently tasked and ordered to do, over many years. Deck-spotting rotary aircraft should not start by clearing the deck of the rule book and all the testing that underpinned it.
Aside from the casualties out the closest to truth in the article is that the MV-22 was directed to land on spot 5 (...ish).
RIP to those who lost their lives due to the actions of those above them.