A U.S. military aircraft crashed in the sea off the southern coast of Japan on Wednesday, the Japanese Coast Guard said, with the condition of the eight passengers on board unknown.
File Photo of a U.S. Navy V-22 Osprey.
According to Japanese news agency Kyodo News, the crashed aircraft is a V-22 Osprey that disappeared from the radar at 2:40 p.m. local time and sent out a distress call five minutes later.
Both the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps operate the V-22 Ospreys, which are tiltrotor aircraft whose propellers can be rotated to take off as a helicopter and then fly as a plane.
The coast guard has recovered one person and debris from the ocean, although the person’s condition remains unknown, the Associated Press reported.
This is a developing story.