Osprey Incident History

This crash is the latest in a series of incidents involving the V-22 Osprey, both in the U.S. and internationally. The model has suffered 16 total hull loss accidents resulting in 55 fatalities.

These incidents range from a misconnected flight control system in June 1991 causing minor injuries, to more severe cases like a crash in July 1992 where the failure of the right engine led to the loss of the seven people on board. In April 2000, an uncontrolled descent resulted in a crash in Arizona, killing the 19 Marines on board.

A crash in December 2000 near Jacksonville, North Carolina, killed four USMC members due to a flight control error. Other incidents include an uncommanded engine acceleration in March 2006, a crash in Afghanistan in April 2010 resulting in the death of three U.S. service members and one civilian, and a crash in Morocco during a training exercise in April 2012, killing two Marines.

A training accident in Florida in June 2012 injured the five on board. In May 2015, a training exercise in Hawaii led to the death of two Marines. A crash in 2016 in Okinawa resulted in two injuries but no fatalities. A crash in August 2017 off the coast of Australia killed three marines.

In September 2017, a V-22 was severely damaged in Syria. A crash in March 2022 in Norway killed the four Marines on board, and a crash in June 2022 in California resulted in the death of five Marines. An accident in August 2023 in Australia killed three USMC members.