US military aircraft

Tokyo, Nov 29, A US Osprey military transport aircraft carrying eight people crashed off Japan's southwestern island of Yakushima in Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday, local media reported. The Japan Coast Guard received an emergency call about the crash at 2.47 p.m. after the Osprey departed from the Iwakuni US base in the Yamaguchi heading for the Kadena base in Okinawa, public broadcaster NHK said, citing local authorities. The aircraft disappeared from radar at 2.40 p.m., Xinhua news agency quoted the Defence Ministry as saying. Japan Coast Guard spokesperson Kazuo Ogawa said the coast guard has dispatched patrol boats and aircraft…