Bodies found in wreck of US military aircraft near Japan
Defense And Security,Aircraft,United States
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American and Japanese search teams have found five bodies in the wreckage of a US military aircraft that crashed near Yakushima island last week.
The aircraft, a CV-22 Osprey hybrid plane, was carrying eight people when it crashed last week. Only one had previously been found.
Two of the five bodies found on Monday have so far been recovered.
The crash prompted Tokyo to ask that the US ground its Osprey planes in the country.
At the time of the crash, the Osprey had been on a training flight from a US Marine Corps air base in Yamaguchi Prefecture and was headed towards Kadena Air Base in Okinawa.
It requested an emergency landing on Yukushima island before crashing offshore.
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