The military has disclosed that it retrieved five bodies after one of its aircraft crashed off the southern coast of Japan last week.
In a grime state, Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) admitted that the dive teams were able to confirm five additional crew members from the original team of eight involved in the crash as Japanese rescuers continued to assist with recovery operations for the remaining two persons.
Japanese authorities had initially said that eight people were on board the plane, but they revised the figure later during the day of the crash to six.
The CV-22 Osprey military aircraft had departed from US Marine Corps Station Iwakumi in southern Japan and was heading further south to the Kadena Air Base on Okinawa when it crashed.