NOR-WAY HOME: AN AIR FORCE OSPREY HAS BEEN STRANDED ON A REMOTE ISLAND FOR ALMOST A MONTH
September 6, 2022 • Jenna Biter
A US CV-22B Osprey has been stuck on the Norwegian island of Senja after making an emergency landing Aug. 12, 2021. Norwegian Armed Forces photo.
An Air Force CV-22 Osprey had to make an emergency landing on a remote Norwegian island almost a month ago.
It’s still there.
A spokeswoman for Air Force Special Operations Command, or AFSOC, confirmed to Coffee or Die Magazine that a CV-22 remained stranded in a nature reserve on Senja, an island just off the northern coast of Norway. The Osprey is from the 7th Special Operations Squadron in Mildenhall, UK, and was participating in a military exercise on Aug. 12 when the tilt-rotor transport was forced to make an emergency landing, Lt. Col. Rebecca Heyse said.
The aircraft touched down in the nature reserve and has been stuck there ever since. The island has no roads that access the landing site, and officials said repairing the Osprey couldn’t be done in the field. At nearly 40,000 pounds, the Osprey is too heavy to lift out.
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