Marines: 12 taken to hospital after aircraft's hard landing

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

AUDREY MCAVOY

HONOLULU (AP) — A Marine Corps Osprey aircraft made a hard landing in Hawaii on Sunday and 12 Marines were taken to a hospital, military officials said.

The tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey can take off and land like a helicopter but has wings to fly like an airplane. It had a "hard-landing mishap" at about 11 a.m., the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit said in a statement.

Officials didn't provide details about the conditions of the Marines, who were training at Bellows Air Force Station on Oahu.

The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is based at Camp Pendleton in California and is in Hawaii for about a week for training.

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Military needed this. We spent how much and it still isn't safe?

[FLPanhandle]

1. The Osprey had a tough development and initial deployment

However, it looked like they had finally worked all the kinks out of a complex design and potentially highly versatile aircraft for the Marines.

I wonder if this is a step back for the aircraft again, or some other factor lead to the hard landing.

The Special Ops fly them around our area all the time here in the panhandle of Florida.

[Owl]

2. A death trap.

[rickford66]

3. Hey. That's what I was going to say.

I knew people working on the development. I heard about several glaring software problems. I thought it looked like a death trap just from the description of how it was going to work.

[hack89]

4. It is presently their safest aircraft

it has been flying in combat zones with an excellent safety record for several years now.

[Psephos]

7. Please, you're wrecking the narrative. n/t

[hack89]

5. It has one of the best safety records in the military

they have an excellent combat record.

[Little Tich]

6. The source has been revised, now there’s one dead and 21 taken to hospital. n/t