The Pentagon’s Inspector
General found no evidence that Marine Corps officials tampered
with crash and test reports to hide faults in the Boeing Co.-
Textron Inc. V-22 Osprey program.
The allegations were made by a Marine Corps officer last year
after he had been found guilty of ordering mechanics to falsify V-
22 maintenance records. No Marine officials were named.
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“The investigation found no evidence to support any of the
allegations,” according to a report by Charles Beardall, acting
assistant Inspector General for investigations, that was submitted
to Congress this week.
The Inspector General’s conclusions may be a boost for the
$46 billion program that over 12 years has been dogged by four
accidents that killed 30 soldiers, failures to meet reliability
standards and instances of doctored maintenance records. The
plane, which is still in the testing phase, was grounded in
December 2000 following two fatal crashes.
The V-22’s unique tilt-rotor design allows it to fly like an
airplane and take off, hover and land like a helicopter. The
craft, which the Marines have billed as a replacement for
helicopters to ferry troops to the battlefield, resumed flight
testing in May after the Pentagon and contractor modified
hydraulics and other systems that contributed to at least one of
the crashes.
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