A week after a US military "Osprey" transport plane crashed off the coast of Yakushima, Japan, the United States finally announced the final search and rescue results.
According to the Pentagon's local announcement on December 5, in the crash that occurred on November 29, the eight US soldiers on board had "no possibility of survival", and the rescue work was declared over and will be converted into body work.
At present, the US side has found the remains of six US soldiers in the sea area involved, and the whereabouts of two are still unknown.
The US side also revealed that the eight people on board were between the ages of 24 and 36 and were from the Yokota and Kadena bases of the US military stationed in Japan, but did not release other information related to the people on board.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that information related to the accident will continue to be collected and that the crash will be thoroughly investigated.
Biden also issued a statement saying that he was "deeply saddened" by the death of all eight crew members on the "Osprey" transport plane.
In other words, after a week of search and rescue work, the crash, which attracted widespread attention from the outside world, finally decided that "all the people on board were killed".
In this crash, all the people on board were killed, and no one survived, and such tragic results show that the accident is not simple, and may not even be "accidental" or "exceptional".
For this reason, after the accident occurred, Japan immediately demanded that the US military ground all "Osprey" fighters in Japan until the investigation of the accident was concluded.
However, it is a pity that the United States directly ignored Japan's demands and took off and landed the "Osprey" 14 times in succession within three days after the accident, which greatly disgraced Japan and highlighted the arrogance of the United States.
Now, when the United States announces the results of the search and rescue without mentioning the "grounding" of flights, it can basically declare that Japan's demand is hopeless to be realized. The United States will not consider "grounding" the "Osprey" fighter unless it is revealed in a follow-up investigation that there are systemic problems with the "Osprey" fighter.
As for whether the "Osprey" of the US military stationed in Japan will have another accident before this, no one can say for sure.
The search and rescue work of the US military has come to an end, but the aircraft carrier sent by the United States has no intention of withdrawing at all.
After all, the United States sent an aircraft carrier to help salvage an "Osprey" crashed, and this obviously means that it is a bit of an "overkill." It cannot be ruled out that assisting in the search and rescue work is just a cover for the United States to send an aircraft carrier to Japan, and the real purpose is to take advantage of this opportunity to realize the long-term presence and deployment of the US aircraft carrier in the Asia-Pacific region, expand the US military influence in the region, and then further disturb the situation in the Asia-Pacific region.
In short, in order to promote the so-called "return to the Asia-Pacific" strategy, the United States has continuously deployed troops and waited for opportunities to disrupt the regional situation.
It has been learned that the "Osprey" is one of the most frequently used military aircraft by the US special forces, and is also the main fighter plane sold by the United States to foreign countries, and its importance to the United States cannot be ignored, and once a crash occurs, the impact will be incalculable.
However, this is not the first time that the "Osprey" transport plane has crashed, but the United States has attached great importance to the crash of the military plane, especially in the search and rescue process, the United States has also specially sent a "Carl Vinson" aircraft carrier to Japan to assist in the work, which is a very rare situation, and at the same time has made the outside world very puzzled -- is the "Osprey" too important, or is the person on board too important?Or what important documents or equipment are on board?The U.S. military must be salvaged?
Now, the Pentagon has announced that the eight people on board are from the Yokota and Kadena bases of the US military stationed in Japan, indicating that the military plane may be carrying personnel from two US military bases at that time, and it may be important, which makes the US side attach great importance to it.
As for what kind of secret inside story is there, it will depend on how the Pentagon will respond next.