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Narrative: A 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit MV-22 Osprey sustained substantial damage upon vertical impact at 36 ft/s during landing at Waimanalo, Oahu in brown out conditions on a third approach to the LZ (and brown out encounter). The repeated ingestion of debris resulted in an engine power loss.
Investigators noted: “Upon impact, the aircraft absorbed the forces produced by the hard landing as it was designed.” The wings fractured near the main cabin, the tail section broke off near the ramp area, and all prop rotorblades “broom strawed or shattered after impacting the ground or airframe.”
A post-impact fire ensued and two personnel onboard the tilt-rotor aircraft received fatal injuries. Of the remaining twenty personnel onboard 18 received injuries of unreported severity.