V-22 Panel Learns Marine Pilots Were Unaware of Power Settling Dangers

By Adam J. Hebert / March 9, 2001 at 5:00 AM
During its first public meeting today, the "blue ribbon" Panel to Review the V-22 Program heard arguments for and against moving forward with the controversial tiltrotor program and was informed that contractors had not made the Marine Corps aware of the seriousness of a "power settling" phenomenon before it resulted in an April 2000 crash that killed 19 Marines. Critics of the program told the four-member panel the Osprey program has serious defects that must be identified and corrected before...

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