WASHINGTON (REUTERS) — The future of the U.S. military’s MV-22 aircraft program is uncertain as the Marine Corps conducts an investigation of maintenance records.
The aircraft, known as the “Osprey,” is built jointly by Boeing Co. and Providence-based Textron Inc. under program potentially worth $40 billion.
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“You’re not going to continue something if it proves to be either poorly designed or incapable of being maintained and flown. Until we answer these questions we don’t know how we proceed,” Defense Secretary William Cohen said Friday.
The Marine Corps said on Thursday it was investigating allegations that the commanding officer of its MV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft training squadron asked Marines in his unit to falsify maintenance records of craft.
Cohen had ordered a separate investigation into the MV-22 program after two fatal crashes in April and December of last year. The Osprey was grounded in December and full-scale production was delayed.
