Crews continue search for missing airman nearly a month after Osprey crash in Japan
By ALEX WILSON
STARS AND STRIPES • December 29, 2023
U.S. and Japanese crews continue to search for the remains of the last crew member killed when an Air Force CV-22B Osprey crashed off the coast of southwestern Japan last month, the Air Force said recently.
Divers searched the waters around Yakushima, an island just south of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, for the remains of Maj. Eric Spendlove, 36, of St. George, Utah, Air Force Special Operations Command said in a Facebook post Wednesday.
“Locating and recovering our eighth Airman remains the primary effort,” the command wrote.
Salvage teams meanwhile are working to recover the tiltrotor aircraft, according to several Air Force Special Operations Command news releases.
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