Jack Crowley kicked 13 points as Munster overcame eighth-place finishers Ospreys 23-7 at Thomond Park to earn a BKT United Rugby Championship home semi-final. Niall Scannell’s maul try and a Crowley penalty gave Munster a 17-7 half-time lead, after Simon Zebo and Keelan Giles had swapped two slick early scores. In front of an attendance […]
The Air Force has started to fly some of its CV-22 Ospreys again to assess the troubled aircraft’s flight eligibility, a notable step as the service works to return the entire fleet to full operations after a deadly crash late last year. It is the last among the services to return its Ospreys to the […]
Munster wing Sean O’Brien scored two tries to put a huge dent in Ospreys’ hopes of an end-of-season play-off spot with a 27-17 win. Errors from the hosts gifted Munster a healthy early lead and the home side never looked like clawing back that deficit. Shane Daly and RG Snyman were also on the try-scoring […]
The Osprey, a workhorse aircraft vital to US military missions, has been approved to return to flight after an “unprecedented” part failure led to the deaths of eight service members in a crash in Japan in November, Naval Air Systems Command announced. The crash was the second fatal accident in months and the fourth in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The military services will take a key step toward getting the V-22 Osprey fleet back in the air as they lay out their plans Friday to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for addressing safety concerns stemming from a fatal crash in Japan, three defense officials said. The U.S. fleet of about 400 Osprey […]