TOKYO: Japan on Wednesday demanded that the US suspend flights of its controversial US Marine Osprey aircraft after one appeared to crash land off the southern island of Okinawa.

Late on Tuesday, five crew members aboard the MV-22 Osprey were injured when the tilt-rotor aircraft suffered a “mishap” and landed in shallow water, the Pentagon said.

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