Military Recovers Black Box From Deadly US Military Osprey Crash in Japan

An MV-22B Osprey with Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron (VMX) 1 transports ordnance during an Expeditionary Advanced Base Operation (EABO) exercise to Old Highway 101 near Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., on May 25, 2022. U.S. Marine Corps via AP

The U.S. Air Force has recovered the black box from the CV-22B Osprey crash off the coast of Japan in November that claimed the lives of eight airmen.

Lt. Col. Rebecca Heyse, a spokeswoman for Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), told Military.com that the black box “will be transported to laboratories for data retrieval” and that officials “expect the analysis process to take several weeks.”