A US military Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan’s Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday, with eight people on board, according to a spokesperson from the Japan Coast Guard.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    35·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know what you would have to pay me to get into a helicopter, but it would be a lot. Planes scare me enough as it is.

      • Vanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Kobe Bryant told me to downvote your comment. But at least he didn’t go out in a fucking Osprey.

        • Trabic@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          VFR into IMC is pretty deadly no matter which way the rotors are pointed.