また ! シリアで米海兵隊のオスプレイが墜落、二名負傷 - 命も物資も安全に運ぶことができない輸送機になぜ固執するのか?
これだよ。
つい先ほど、２９日。新石垣空港に２機のオスプレイが緊急着陸したという知らせがあったばかりだが、
日付が変わるか変わらないかのうちに、
また、さらに速報が入ってきた。
命に別状はないと報告されているが、２名が負傷したもよう。
まだ詳細はわかっていないが、敵側の攻撃などで引き起こされた事故ではないという情報を、この『星条旗新聞』が伝えている。
墜落したオスプレイはサルベージすることができない破損状態にあり、7000万ドルもするオスプレイを部隊に破壊させた、とある。
昨年１２月には名護市の海岸で一機が墜落、一機が胴体着陸。
先月８月にはオーストラリア沖で墜落し、３名の若い命が失われた。
今月だけでも何度も緊急着陸を繰り返し、
そしてこれだ。
シリアの戦闘で墜落したのではないらしいということが、この星条旗新聞で報告されているが、
戦闘中でもなく、普通に人や物資を輸送していて墜落する輸送機など、一体どこに価値を見出したらいいのか。
たかだか輸送機なのに、なぜこれほど落ちるのか。
なぜこれほど固執するのか。
オスプレイから手をひけ !
2 injured in Osprey crash in Syria
WASHINGTON — A Marine MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashed in Syria on Friday, injuring two U.S. servicemembers, according to defense officials.
The cause of the incident was not immediately clear, but it was not caused by enemy activity, an official said on the condition of anonymity. The Osprey could not be salvaged, forcing troops to destroy the $70 million aircraft.
The servicemembers’ injuries in the crash, which was described as a “hard landing,” were not life-threatening, according to U.S. Central Command. “The two were evaluated for non-life-threatening injuries and quickly transported to a medical treatment facility, where they were seen and released,” a Central Command statement read.
Officials declined to identify the injured servicemembers’ military branch or where in Syria the crash occurred.
The Pentagon acknowledges having some 500 troops inside Syria training and assisting Syrian Democratic Forces in their fight against Islamic State militants. Military operations against ISIS are ongoing in east Syria, primarily along the Euphrates River from Raqqa to the country’s border with Iraq. U.S. troops operate at several other locations to the north and south of the river where they train Syrian fighters.
The Central Command statement said the cause of the incident Friday was under investigation. It is the latest in a string of military mishaps that include recent incidents, some deadly, among all four Defense Department services in training and combat operations.
It is also at least the third major crash involving an Osprey in 2017.
Three Marines died in an Osprey crash off the coast of Australia last month. In January, an Osprey crashed during a special operations raid on al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, leaving two servicemembers injured.
An MV-22B Osprey lands during a 2009 exercise in Egypt. The U.S. Defense Department announced Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, that an MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashed in Syria, injuring two U.S. servicemembers.
THEODORE RITCHIE/U.S. MARINE CORPS
写真は2009年のエジプトでの写真。
追って続報を伝えたいと思う。
