A number of accidents have befallen flights with the V-22 Osprey. Here is an overview from wikipedia which mentions the majority of the most serious accidents with a total of 45 fatalities. March 2022 Flight guided in Gråtådalen in Beiarn in Nordland. The reason has not been clarified. Four crew members died. September 2017 An aircraft participating in Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve was totally damaged in a hard landing. Two people were injured. The plane caught fire shortly after the crash. August 2017 The aircraft taking off from the USS Bonhomme Richard collided with another US ship, the USS Green Bay and crashed into the waters off the west coast of Australia. 23 people were rescued and three were confirmed dead. December 2016 An aircraft landed on a reef in shallow water off Okinawa and lost parts. All five on board were rescued and two of the crew were injured. All aircraft of this type in Japan were grounded the following day. Investigations show that in connection with mid-air refueling from an HC-.130 (a variant of Lockhead’s C-130 Hercules), the refueling hose was struck by the Osprey’s rotor. May 2015 One of three Osprey aircraft taking part in an exercise in Hawaii got sand and dust into the right engine. This led to a hard landing as a fuel leak caused the aircraft to catch fire. Two marines were killed and 20 others were injured. This first for improvements to the air filter and requirements for reduced time spent in dusty environments from 60 to 30 seconds. June 2012 An aircraft taking part in an exercise in Florida crashed due to pilot error. The plane ran into propeller turbulence from another plane. All five on board were injured. April 2012 An Osprey machine crashed near Agadir in Morocco. The aircraft was participating in an exercise. Two soldiers were killed and three were seriously injured. Human failure is believed to be the cause of this accident. April 2010 A plane crashed in Afghanistan. Three American soldiers and one civilian died, 16 people were injured in the crash. The US Air Force has suggested that it was poor visibility, a poor approach, loss of situational awareness and an unfortunate approach angle that were the cause. The triggering cause of the accident may never be revealed, because the aly machine and the “black box” have been destroyed. March 2006 An unexpected acceleration while the aircraft was about to turn slightly above ground level at an air base in the USA caused damage to the starboard wing. A miswired connector was the cause and the aircraft’s damage led to it being condemned. December 2000 Near Jacksonville, North Carolina, four people died after an in-flight malfunction. Vibrations caused a cable to puncture a hydraulic hose. A previously undetected error in the software meant that the aircraft did not react as it should to the pilot’s attempt to reset the flight controls. The plane fell almost 500 meters and crashed in a forest. April 2000 A plane carrying Marines in Arizona descended much faster than normal from a high altitude. 75 meters above the ground, the right engine stopped, the plane rumbled, crashed and exploded. All 19 on board perished. The cause has been clarified as so-called VRS – Vortex Ring State – a state of tubulence around the rotor which is well known in helicopter maneuvers and on other vertical lifting aircraft. As a result, the machine loses its lifting capacity. Catching up from VRS is considered easier on an Osprey than on a helicopter. July 1992 7 people died when an aircraft in one of the earlier editions of the Osprey suffered engine failure. This caused the plane to crash into the Potomac River near Quantico. All machines of this type were grounded for 11 months and had a titanium firewall installed to protect the engine. June 1991 One machine crashed and caught fire due to a malfunction in the flight control system. The incident took place in Delaware in the United States. Source: Accidents and incidents involving th V-22 Osprey
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