CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — An officer killed when an MV-22B Osprey crashed last year over northern Australia also piloted the tiltrotor that went down off Okinawa in 2016, according to the Marine Corps.

The mishaps included an accidental shut down of an engine in flight and a parking accident involving two of the aircraft.

Marines came to their home in Arlington, Virginia, last week to brief them on what caused the Osprey crash in Australia last year that resulted in the death of their son and two other Marines.

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The Osprey then crashed and exploded, killing all 19 Marines on board. In an 8,000-page crash report, the Corps said that "human factors" were the primary cause of the crash. The report stopped ...

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