Osprey Hard Landing Leaves Marine Dead and 21 Injured

MV-22 Osprey 'Hard Landing' in Hawaii Kills One Marine, Injures 21 
Associated Press
May 17, 2015

A Marine Corps Osprey aircraft made a hard landing in Hawaii on Sunday, killing one Marine and sending 21 other people to hospitals as dark smoke from the resulting fire billowed into the sky.

The tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey, which can take off and land like a helicopter but flies like an airplane, had a "hard-landing mishap" at about 11:40 a.m., the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit said in a statement. Officials didn't provide details about the conditions of the injured.

Twenty-two people were aboard the aircraft, including 21 Marines and one Navy corpsman assigned to the unit, spokesman Capt. Brian Block said in an email.

The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is based at Camp Pendleton in California and is in Hawaii for about a week for training.

The Osprey was being used for training at Bellows Air Force Station on Oahu at the time of the hard landing. read more here