US military Osprey aircraft with 8 aboard crashes into the sea off southern Japan

Japan’s coast guard has found a person and debris in the ocean where a U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying eight people crashed off southern Japan. A coast guard official says the cause of the crash and the status of the person and the others on the aircraft were not immediately known. The Osprey is a tiltrotor aircraft that can function as a helicopter and a turboprop aircraft. U.S. and Japanese officials say the aircraft belonged to Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. U.S. Air Force officials at Yokota said they are still confirming information and had no immediate comment.