{"id":104559,"date":"2024-03-02T00:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/pentagon-to-lift-grounding-order-on-v-22-osprey-3-months-after-deadly-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T00:04:06","slug":"pentagon-to-lift-grounding-order-on-v-22-osprey-3-months-after-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/pentagon-to-lift-grounding-order-on-v-22-osprey-3-months-after-deadly-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to lift grounding order on V-22 Osprey, 3 months after deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-01\/GettyImages_Osprey_030124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Alexander Welscher\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Pentagon is expected to lift its flight ban on V-22 Osprey as early as next week, clearing the way for the services to fly the tilt-rotor aircraft once again after nearly three months after it was grounded.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was briefed to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>The Naval Air Systems Command grounded the aircraft last December following a crash off Japan that killed eight airmen. Earlier in the year, three Marines died in a separate crash involving the Osprey during a training exercise off the northern coast of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The decision meant that all versions of the Osprey flown by the Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy were grounded.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unlikely the services will be flying the V-22 right away. It\u2019s expected that once a ground bulletin is lifted, the services will be given instructions on specific action items to take before putting the Osprey in the air again.<\/p>\n<p>Then, it will be up to each service to decide how to use the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Welscher\/picture alliance via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Pentagon is expected to lift its flight ban on V-22 Osprey as early as next week, clearing the way for the services to fly the tilt-rotor aircraft once again after nearly three months after it was grounded. The decision was briefed<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/pentagon-to-lift-grounding-order-on-v-22-osprey-3-months-after-deadly-crash\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}