There was specifically no report of any abnormal engine issues from the crew or anyone in contact with them
Generals clash on cause of April Osprey crash - Air Force News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Air Force Times
•No one onboard the Osprey or in radio contact with it heard any discussions about engine problems or warnings from the cockpit.
•An analysis of the recovered left engine showed it was working. The right engine was not recovered.
•The V-22 Joint Program Office, which oversees Air Force and Marine Corps Ospreys, concluded engine failure was highly unlikely.
•The crew made several errors, including the pilot flying too high and too fast in his approach; the failure to obtain a weather report warning of a 17 mph tailwind; distraction over unexpected lighting at the landing zone; and self-imposed pressure to make the mission a success.
Now heres a
real interesting tidbit I just noticed:
(from same article linked above)
The April 9 crash in Afghanistan was the first loss of a CV-22 Osprey in combat. Two of the three cockpit crew members — pilot Maj. Randell Voas, 43, and flight engineer Senior Master Sgt. James Lackey, 45 — died attempting a night landing at a desert landing zone. The co-pilot survived; he has not been indentified. Also killed were a soldier and a contractor — two of 16 passengers in the cargo compartment.
and from
Two airmen injured in Osprey crash released from hospital | hurlburt, injured, airmen - Northwest Florida Daily News
Maj. Brian Luce and Tech. Sgt. Christopher Dawson have been released Eglin Hospital, where they were taken after the crash on Eglin Air Force Base’s reservation.
Capt. Brett Cassidy, Staff Sgt. Sean McMahon and Tech. Sgt. Edilberto Malave were in stable condition at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola on Friday...
Luce, one of the pilots, also was a co-pilot in the deadly CV-22 Osprey crash in Afghanistan in April 2010, said Master Sgt. Kristina Newton, a spokeswoman for Hurlburt.
If this is correct, then Maj Brian Luce was the previously unidentified lone cockpit crew survivor from the only other previous CV-22 crash. What luck.