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FILE - A V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft taxi's during a mission in western Iraqi desert, Oct. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

FILE - A V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft taxi's during a mission in western Iraqi desert, Oct. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

FILE - White suited workers investigate the crash scene of a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey at the Avra Valley Airport, north of Tucson, Ariz., April 9, 2000. A Marine Corps aircraft attempting to land during a nighttime training mission crashed and burst into flames, killing all 19 aboard and adding to a checkered history for a new breed of hybrid plane that can take off and land like a helicopter. (AP Photo/Jon Hayt, File)

FILE - White suited workers investigate the crash scene of a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey at the Avra Valley Airport, north of Tucson, Ariz., April 9, 2000. A Marine Corps aircraft attempting to land during a nighttime training mission crashed and burst into flames, killing all 19 aboard and adding to a checkered history for a new breed of hybrid plane that can take off and land like a helicopter. (AP Photo/Jon Hayt, File)

In this photo provided by Japan Coast Guard, debris believed to be from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft is seen off the coast of Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan Nov. 29, 2023. (Japan Coast Guard via AP)

In this photo provided by Japan Coast Guard, debris believed to be from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft is seen off the coast of Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan Nov. 29, 2023. (Japan Coast Guard via AP)

Lt. Col. Seth Buckley, an Osprey squadron commander at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., who lost his brother in an Air Force Special Operations Command MC-130H crash (AFSOC) when he was still in high school, poses for a photo in his office Oct. 8, 2024.. Buckley says, "I think my job here is to ensure that I'm going to push it to the level that we are making sure we aren't delivering any more of these," he said of the flag the Air Force gave his family, which he keeps in his office. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

Lt. Col. Seth Buckley, an Osprey squadron commander at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., who lost his brother in an Air Force Special Operations Command MC-130H crash (AFSOC) when he was still in high school, poses for a photo in his office Oct. 8, 2024.. Buckley says, "I think my job here is to ensure that I'm going to push it to the level that we are making sure we aren't delivering any more of these," he said of the flag the Air Force gave his family, which he keeps in his office. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

FiLE - Military rescue workers and boaters arrive on the scene of a crash, shortly after it happened, of an experimental V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in the Potomac River just off the Quantico Marine Air Station, July 20, 1992, in Quantico, Va. (AP Photo/Bill Kramer)

FiLE - Military rescue workers and boaters arrive on the scene of a crash, shortly after it happened, of an experimental V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in the Potomac River just off the Quantico Marine Air Station, July 20, 1992, in Quantico, Va. (AP Photo/Bill Kramer)

Marine Two, an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff aboard, lifts from Soldier Field in Chicago, Aug. 23, 2024.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Marine Two, an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff aboard, lifts from Soldier Field in Chicago, Aug. 23, 2024.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Local emergency responders extinguish the fires caused by a CV-22 Osprey crash that occurred at Eglin range June 13, 2012 near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. (Airman 1st Class Christopher Williams, U.S. Air Force via AP)

Local emergency responders extinguish the fires caused by a CV-22 Osprey crash that occurred at Eglin range June 13, 2012 near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. (Airman 1st Class Christopher Williams, U.S. Air Force via AP)

Two Air Force Special Operations Command CV-22B Ospreys fly low and fast in formation on a training range named the Hornet at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

Two Air Force Special Operations Command CV-22B Ospreys fly low and fast in formation on a training range named the Hornet at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

Master Sgt. Frank Williams, the production superintendent of the 20th Special Operations aircraft maintenance squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., climbs a ladder to show where hydraulic lines at the joint of the rotating engine and transmission need to be checked on the Osprey after flights, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

Master Sgt. Frank Williams, the production superintendent of the 20th Special Operations aircraft maintenance squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., climbs a ladder to show where hydraulic lines at the joint of the rotating engine and transmission need to be checked on the Osprey after flights, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

FILE - Maj. Barry Moore shows a photo of a V-22 Osprey aircraft at a news conference, July 20, 1992, at Quantico Marine Air Station in Quantico, Va., after an experimental V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft crashed into the Potomac River near the air station. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)

FILE - Maj. Barry Moore shows a photo of a V-22 Osprey aircraft at a news conference, July 20, 1992, at Quantico Marine Air Station in Quantico, Va., after an experimental V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft crashed into the Potomac River near the air station. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)

Former Air Force Osprey pilot Brian Luce poses for a portrait inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Former Air Force Osprey pilot Brian Luce poses for a portrait inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

A Boeing V-22 Osprey is seen on Aug. 13, 2022, in Senja, Norway, after an emergency landing due to a clutch issue. (Norwegian Armed Forces via AP)

A Boeing V-22 Osprey is seen on Aug. 13, 2022, in Senja, Norway, after an emergency landing due to a clutch issue. (Norwegian Armed Forces via AP)

Former Air Force Osprey pilot Brian Luce, left, speaks with museum visitors inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Former Air Force Osprey pilot Brian Luce, left, speaks with museum visitors inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

FILE - Photographs of Marine Cpl. Spencer R. Collart and his fellow marines, Capt. Eleanor V. LeBeau, bottom left, and Maj. Tobin J. Lewis, bottom right, are seen at the home of his parents in Arlington, Va., June 19, 2024. Collart, 21, was killed along with the two Marines when the MV-22B Osprey aircraft they were on crashed during drills on a north Australian island on Aug. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

FILE - Photographs of Marine Cpl. Spencer R. Collart and his fellow marines, Capt. Eleanor V. LeBeau, bottom left, and Maj. Tobin J. Lewis, bottom right, are seen at the home of his parents in Arlington, Va., June 19, 2024. Collart, 21, was killed along with the two Marines when the MV-22B Osprey aircraft they were on crashed during drills on a north Australian island on Aug. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Brian Luce, left, speaks with museum visitor Ben Perkins inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Brian Luce, left, speaks with museum visitor Ben Perkins inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Osprey flight engineer Tech Sgt. Brett McGee sits on the back open ramp of the V-22 and holds the aircraft's .50 caliber gun as the crew flies over a New Mexico training range Oct. 9, 2024, near Cannon Air Force Base. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

Osprey flight engineer Tech Sgt. Brett McGee sits on the back open ramp of the V-22 and holds the aircraft's .50 caliber gun as the crew flies over a New Mexico training range Oct. 9, 2024, near Cannon Air Force Base. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

FILE - Amber Sax, center, holds a photo of her late husband, Marine Corps MV-22B pilot Capt. John Sax, as she and other family members who have lost service members to Osprey crashes talk with Vice Adm. Carl Chebi, Commander of U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, center right, and Peter Belk, acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, right, before a hearing on the programs safety record, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

FILE - Amber Sax, center, holds a photo of her late husband, Marine Corps MV-22B pilot Capt. John Sax, as she and other family members who have lost service members to Osprey crashes talk with Vice Adm. Carl Chebi, Commander of U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, center right, and Peter Belk, acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, right, before a hearing on the programs safety record, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

Former Air Force Osprey pilot Brian Luce poses for a portrait inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Former Air Force Osprey pilot Brian Luce poses for a portrait inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

A service member walks under the Osprey nacelle, which houses both the Osprey's engine and transmission system and bends upward like an elbow during vertical flight at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 8, 2024. The open panel shows the proprotor gearbox, which serves as the transmission and has been a factor in multiple crashes after parts wore down and broke apart in flight. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

A service member walks under the Osprey nacelle, which houses both the Osprey's engine and transmission system and bends upward like an elbow during vertical flight at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 8, 2024. The open panel shows the proprotor gearbox, which serves as the transmission and has been a factor in multiple crashes after parts wore down and broke apart in flight. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

FILE - A U.S. Marine Corps carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Gunnery Sgt. James W. Speedy of Cambridge, Ohio, during a casualty return, Friday, March 25, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base. According to the Department of Defense, Speedy died March 18, in an Osprey crash during a NATO exercise in Norway. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FILE - A U.S. Marine Corps carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Gunnery Sgt. James W. Speedy of Cambridge, Ohio, during a casualty return, Friday, March 25, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base. According to the Department of Defense, Speedy died March 18, in an Osprey crash during a NATO exercise in Norway. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Osprey pilots Capt. Christian Eells, left, and Capt. Matthew Gulotta stand Oct. 8, 2024, at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., beside a memorial to the Air Force Special Operations Command Osprey callsign "Gundam 22" that crashed off the coast of Japan in November 2023, killing all eight service members aboard. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

Osprey pilots Capt. Christian Eells, left, and Capt. Matthew Gulotta stand Oct. 8, 2024, at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., beside a memorial to the Air Force Special Operations Command Osprey callsign "Gundam 22" that crashed off the coast of Japan in November 2023, killing all eight service members aboard. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

FILE - Wreckage of a U.S. military MV-22 Osprey is seen in shallow waters off Nago, Okinawa, southern Japan, Dec. 14, 2016, after it crash landed. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - Wreckage of a U.S. military MV-22 Osprey is seen in shallow waters off Nago, Okinawa, southern Japan, Dec. 14, 2016, after it crash landed. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - An MV-22 Osprey takes off as Japan Ground Self-Defense Force guards the landing zone during a joint military drill with U.S. Marines in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

FILE - An MV-22 Osprey takes off as Japan Ground Self-Defense Force guards the landing zone during a joint military drill with U.S. Marines in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

FILE - Wreckage of a MV-22 Osprey is seen in shallow waters off Nago, Okinawa, southern Japan, Dec. 14, 2016, after it crash landed. All five crew members were safely rescued. (Ryukyu Shimpo/Kyodo News via AP)

FILE - Wreckage of a MV-22 Osprey is seen in shallow waters off Nago, Okinawa, southern Japan, Dec. 14, 2016, after it crash landed. All five crew members were safely rescued. (Ryukyu Shimpo/Kyodo News via AP)

FILE - U.S. Osprey transport aircraft participate in the combined military amphibious landing exercise between South Korea and the U.S., called Ssangyong exercise, in Pohang, South Korea, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

FILE - U.S. Osprey transport aircraft participate in the combined military amphibious landing exercise between South Korea and the U.S., called Ssangyong exercise, in Pohang, South Korea, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Wreckage from a V-22 Osprey that crashed during NATO exercise Cold Response is seen in Beiarn, Norway, April 4, 2022. The bodies of four Marines who died in a military aircraft crash during a NATO exercise have been transferred back to the U.S. The U.S. Marine Corps said an Osprey aircraft crashed on March 18 in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle, killing the four Marines. (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Wreckage from a V-22 Osprey that crashed during NATO exercise Cold Response is seen in Beiarn, Norway, April 4, 2022. The bodies of four Marines who died in a military aircraft crash during a NATO exercise have been transferred back to the U.S. The U.S. Marine Corps said an Osprey aircraft crashed on March 18 in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle, killing the four Marines. (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Osprey pilot Maj. Lucas Duncavage and squadron commander Lt. Col. Seth Buckley talk over their V-22 Osprey training flight just after landing, at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 9, 2024. During the flight they sped 100 feet off the ground on a training range named the Hornet. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

Osprey pilot Maj. Lucas Duncavage and squadron commander Lt. Col. Seth Buckley talk over their V-22 Osprey training flight just after landing, at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 9, 2024. During the flight they sped 100 feet off the ground on a training range named the Hornet. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

FILE - Marine Two, an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris aboard, departs after she visited the border and spoke in Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - Marine Two, an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris aboard, departs after she visited the border and spoke in Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)