{"id":1979986,"date":"2023-07-21T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aircraft-crash-that-killed-five-marines-occurred-due-to-catastrophic-mechanical-failure\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:23:46","slug":"aircraft-crash-that-killed-five-marines-occurred-due-to-catastrophic-mechanical-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aircraft-crash-that-killed-five-marines-occurred-due-to-catastrophic-mechanical-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Marines died in an aircraft crash caused by a severe mechanical failure."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faircraft-crash-that-killed-five-marines-occurred-due-to-catastrophic-mechanical-failure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979986&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Marine \u2062Corps Concludes Investigation into Aircraft Crash<\/h2>\n<p>The Marine Corps has recently concluded its investigation into a tragic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irans-largest-warship-catches-fire-under-unclear-circumstances-sinks-in-gulf-on-oman\/\" title=\"Iran\u2019s Largest Warship Catches Fire \u2018Under Unclear Circumstances,\u2019 Sinks In Gulf On Oman\">aircraft crash<\/a> that claimed the lives of five service members. The\u200b investigation findings\u200b reveal that \u200ca mechanical\u200d failure was responsible for the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sam-brinton-was-on-taxpayer-funded-trip-when-the-official-allegedly-stole-luggage-watchdog\/\" title=\"Watchdog claims official stole luggage from Sam Brinton during taxpayer-funded trip.\">incident \u200doccurred<\/a> on\u200c June\u2064 8, 2022, during a training mission near \u200dGlamis, California. The victims, Cpl. Nathan Carlson, Capt. Nicholas Losapio, Cpl. Seth Rasmuson, Lance Cpl. \u200bEvan Strickland, \u200cand Capt. John Sax, were all assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron \u2062364, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It was determined the pilots \u200dand aircrew were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-races-to-salvage-f-35c-stealth-fighter-lost-in-south-china-sea\/\" title=\"U.S. Navy Races to Salvage F-35C Stealth Fighter Lost in South China Sea\">conducting routine flight operations<\/a> in \u200daccordance with \u2063applicable regulations when a catastrophic, unpreventable and unanticipated mechanical \u2062failure occurred,&#8221; the statement \u200csaid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation, released by the V-22 Joint Program Office, confirmed that neither the pilots nor \u200bthe aircrew made any errors, and no maintenance mistakes contributed to \u200dthe crash.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the mishap was identified as \u2063a dual hard clutch engagement, resulting in a failure of the single engine and interconnect drive system. This failure led to a \u200ccatastrophic loss of thrust on the right-hand proprotor, ultimately causing the crash.<\/p>\n<h3>Efforts to \u200bEnhance Safety<\/h3>\n<p>Col. Brian Taylor, PMA-275\u200b program manager, stated,\u2062 &#8220;Our latest research and mitigation efforts produced several new findings that\u200b significantly increased our understanding of the HCE phenomenon. \u2063While the definitive root cause for all HCE events has not \u2062yet been identified,\u200b we\u2063 are using this new information to implement solutions designed to reduce \u200cthe likelihood of an HCE event and increase aircrew safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-to-take-a-look-at-electric-exhibition-series\/\" title=\"NASCAR to \u201cTake a Look\u201d at Electric Exhibition Series\">original equipment manufacturer<\/a>, the Marine\u200c Corps has developed \u2064a new Proprotor Gearbox \u2063Input Quill Assembly to prevent unintentional clutch disengagements and hard clutch engagement events. Additionally, they have made\u2064 improvements to the aircraft&#8217;s flight control system software, drivetrain component material strength, and inspection\u2062 requirements. Furthermore, a crash-survivable, high-temperature, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aircraft-crash-that-killed-five-marines-occurred-due-to-catastrophic-mechanical-failure\/\" title=\"Five Marines died in an aircraft crash caused by a severe mechanical failure.\">fire-resistant flight\u200d data recorder<\/a> has been integrated into all MV-22B aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>These measures aim\u200d to enhance the safety of aircrew members and prevent similar accidents from occurring \u200bin the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click\u200c here<\/a> to read more \u200bfrom The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps investigation into a June 2022 aircraft crash, which claimed the lives of five service members, has determined that a mechanical failure caused the accident. The deceased individuals were Cpl. Nathan Carlson (21), Capt. Nicholas Losapio (31), Cpl. Seth Rasmuson (21), Lance Cpl. Evan Strickland (19), and Capt. John Sax (33), all serving in the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1979987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}