you know, our reporting and news releases there has been about eight osprey crashes in the last decade or so. what do you make of the aircraft s history? is the osprey safe to fly? yeah, good morning. you know, it s one of those aircraft that has had a lot of trouble in its developmental phases. it had a lot of cost overruns. like you mentioned there, are about 51 or so people killed in osprey-related accidents since the start of the operational flying of this aircraft, which was in the late 1980s. this aircraft came out operation that the ill-fated operation in iran when we were trying to extricate the hostages in 1980. so what they needed was an air aircraft that could do both helicopter type takeoffs, vertical takeoffs and landings, as well as short takeoffs and landings, and they developed the