In article ,
(Simmsac) wrote:

From: Dana Miller

The composite body is
hell for stout. The surviving AC at the Marana AZ crash hit the ground
at more than 600 ft/min vertical speed. No damage.

Dana, that airframe is now a maintanance trainer. It was so badly damaged it
was not repairable...AL

Hmmm,

I was told by our field rep who was at the base where the mission
started that the only damage to the #1 ship was the refueling probe tip
broken off when it rolled through drainage ditch at the Marana Airport
after the hard landing. It was flown back from Marana a day or two
later. I was out of the V-22 world for tha last two years and could be
wrong.

Could it be the pre-production AC that was destroyed on its first flight
due to the roll rate gyros being miswired that is being used at the
maint trainer? Those airframes are fearsomely expensive to write off
without careers being wrecked. As Irecall, there were several
non-flight qual airframe sections being built up as the maintainance
trainers.

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Dana Miller