U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashes into ocean off Japan's coast, nation's coast guard says
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A U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashed into the ocean Wednesday near the small southern Japanese island of Yakushima with eight people on board, Japan's coast guard said. The U.S. military in Japan offered no immediate comment on the incident, but Japanese coast guard spokesperson Kazuo Ogawa was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying it had received an emergency call from a fishing boat reporting the crash.
Ogawa said it was unclear what happened to the aircraft or the eight people on board, but coast guard personnel were responding. Japan's national broadcaster NHK said three of the crew members had been recovered, but it provided no information on their condition.
NHK aired video from a helicopter showing a Japanese Coast Guard vessel at the site, with one bright orange inflatable life raft seen on the water, but nobody in it. CBS News' Japanese partner network TBS said local volunteer rescuers had recovered at least one crewmember alive but unconscious.
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