Family of Pittsfield Airman plans to fly planes over Super Bowl at Osprey Crash Radukes

“This is incredibly traumatizing for all of us”.

The crash prompted the US military to earth all V-22 fishermen until March when it was released to return to the flight. But problems with the aircraft continued to occur.

In November an Air Force Osprey Crew will fly on the Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico I narrowly avoided an accident when they could quickly land after the loss of an engine. A first review resulted The part that broke during the flight had metal weaknesses like in part of the fish eagle, which, according to the Associated Press, found in Japan.

The close-up led to the Pentagon to break the Fischadler flights again while the metal errors were examined. The break was lifted about a month later with new guidelines on the aircraft’s prop -reduction shoot.

Since the military started the plane three decades ago, 64 employees were killed and 93 were injured in accidents. Among these were the navy captain Ross Reynolds from Leominster and Marine captain Nicholas Losapio from Kensington, NH, who died in separate Osprey accidents in 2022.

The plane is designed so that you travel at high speed like an airplane and turn your engines to lift and land like a helicopter.

Galliher’s stepfather, gate gathering nut, fears that the risk of flying the aircraft over an populated area, especially during a large event like the Super Bowl.

“It is completely unnecessary and it is a slap in the face for men and women and asks them to get on the plane that has such a story of accidents and mechanical mistakes,” he said.

The US Marine Corps conducts the transfer and other events in the Super Bowl as the beginning of its years of celebration for the 250th anniversary. On social media, the Marine Corps shared pictures of several Osprey aircraft that fly over the superdome as part of a rehearsal last week.

A spokesman for the Marine Corps said that the transfer would include four MV-22B fishermen, the “Premier Medium-Lift aircraft” of the Corps and two F-35B Lightning II-Jets.

Members of the state’s congress delegation also speak out against the transfer. Last week, the senators from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markay signed a letter to the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, in which he asked him to cancel the event.

“We should celebrate the Marine Corps powerfully important service for 250 years and do not contribute to the grief of families such as the Galliher and Reynolds families in Massachusetts who have lost their relatives in these aircraft,” said Warren in one Opinion.

Brandy said the cancellation of the transfer should “be a simple touchdown for the NFL”.

“It would be respectful to the families and shows that they take the security concerns seriously in terms of aircraft,” he said in a statement. “The families of these brave soldiers have gone through enough and they should not be reminded of their loss during the game on Sunday.”

Kim and Tor Krungster said that they were dismayed that the marines would present the fish eagle as part of their celebration that none of them are planning to see.

“This piece of machinery should not be a celebration if so many have lost their lives in the military,” said Kim Krungutter.

In November Galliher’s widow, Ivy, Submitted an illegal complaint against the manufacturers of the aircraft, Bell Textron and Boeing as well as universal stainless steel, which produced the metal alloy used in the gearbox.

Tor Crochter was said that he thinks the Super Bowl cross -country flight was an attempt to improve the aircraft’s reputation. “We believe that this is an advertisement,” he said. “The Marines try to project it in a better light and to change public opinion.”

In an explanation, the spokesman for the Marine Corps said that the “unsurpassed versatility of the Osprey was powered by the close teamwork between pilots and an aircraft crew, which reflects the strength and unity of the wider marine corps”.

“The Super Bowl offers the perfect opportunity to demonstrate and demonstrate the skills, professionalism and effectiveness of our marine aviators, aircraft crew and aircraft who the marine corps really is,” says the explanation.

Fourteen months, since Galliher and his crew members were killed, the herb and other family members keep keeping his memory alive.

Last year Kim Krungsutter opened a café in Lanesborough entitled “Jakes Java”. On February 7, which would have been Galliher’s 26th birthday, the special menu item of the Peanut Butter French Toast, his favorite birthday, was giving up.

That year since she lost her son, Kim has immersed himself in the community of the Goldstar families. They and gate said they were on January 29th by the Mid -Air collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and a flight of the American Airlines on the Potomac River in Washington, DC, on the ground, in which 67 people, including three Members of the military service on which helicopters killed.

“It feels familiar,” she said. “I just want to give you a great hug and support you all.”

When the recovery crews still pulled victims out of the river, President Trump diversity initiatives blamed for the undermining of air safety and questioned the helicopters’ actions.

The President’s comments, who came less than a day after the crash, shook the herbs, who said that they know so well that it takes time for all times to examine such tragic incidents.

“Sometimes families are waiting for years to get these reports that give them the answers to what happened to their beloved people,” said Tor Kraututter. “And there is a reason for that. They kept telling us that they wanted to do it right that the worst thing they could do, add something into a report or give an explanation that was not correct. For President Trump, this was incredibly irresponsible and heartless. “

Tor Crochter said, he hoped Trump will take a closer look at the history of the fish eagle and consider a command to earth.

“Take a look at what the families of the brave men and women have done who have paid the ultimate victim that flies in this plane,” he said. “If someone could fix it with the impact of a abbey, it would be President Trump.”

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