U.S. Osprey makes emergency landing at western Japan airport

A U.S. military Osprey aircraft made an emergency landing Monday afternoon at a busy western Japan airport, causing some commercial flight delays, the Japanese Defense Ministry said.An MV-22 Osprey belonging to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture landed at Itami airport straddling Osaka and Hyogo prefectures at around 1:55 p.m. It landed safely and taxied to a parking apron with no injury or structural damage, the Defense Ministry said.The tilt-rotor aircraft, which was on its way to the U.S. Navy's Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, from the Mar…READ FULL ARTICLE