Following the restart of U.S. military Osprey flights on the 14th, which had been suspended following a crash off the coast of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, local governments around Yokota Air Base in Tokyo are taking thorough measures to prevent a recurrence and investigating the cause of the accident. We requested the US military and Ministry of Defense to provide information.
In November last year, an Osprey transport plane belonging to the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base crashed off the coast of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, killing all eight people on board, and the U.S. military and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force took measures to ground all aircraft. However, the Ministry of Defense has announced that it will gradually resume domestic flights from the 14th.
Under these circumstances, the US military resumed flights from the Futenma base in Okinawa on the 14th.
According to the cities of Fussa and Hamura near Yokota Air Base, there has been no confirmation that flights will resume at Yokota Air Base, but on the 15th, a liaison committee formed by local governments around the base made a request to the U.S. military and the Ministry of Defense. I sent out a text.
The request states that resuming flights without sufficient information on the cause of the accident and safety measures will further heighten residents' anxiety, and calls for thorough measures to prevent recurrence and the provision of information on the cause of the accident. I'm looking for something like that.