American military plane with eight on board crashes into the sea off the coast of Japan
A U.S. military Osprey plane crashed into the ocean near the Japanese island of Yakushima on Wednesday with eight people on board, the Japanese Coast Guard said.
A coastguard spokesman said there were no further details about the incident, including the safety of those on board.
The crash occurred at around 2.47pm local time, with local residents reporting fire coming from the left engine as it fell into the sea, Japanese broadcaster MBC reported.
A spokesman for U.S. forces in Japan had no immediate comment.
The crash occurred around 2:47 p.m. local time, with local residents reporting fire coming from the plane’s left engine as it fell into the sea, Japanese broadcaster MBC reported (file photo: an MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft)