Japanese minister tries out Osprey plane at Pentagon

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1. I'd be scared shitless if I were that guy!

Not only is the damn aircraft a flying coffin, we don't have a good record when it comes to safe transport of Japanese defense officials.

Just a scant fourteen years ago....

http://articles.cnn.com/1998-09-21/us/9809_21_pentagon.accident_1_defense-minister-accident-kenneth-bacon?_s=PM:US

Japanese defense minister injured in Pentagon accident


September 21, 1998

Five others in the car three Americans and two Japanese were also slightly injured and taken to a nearby hospital after the 1015 a.m. EDT accident. They were all treated and released, officials said.

U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen, who had been awaiting Nukagas arrival at the Pentagons river entrance, accompanied the defense minister to the hospital.

An hour after the accident, the black Cadillac stretch limousine still could be seen stuck atop the raised metal barrier, blocking one of several approaches to the river entrance.

John Jester, chief of the Defense Protective Service, said the security barrier unexpectedly popped up after the first few cars in Nukagas motorcade made it through the gate, lifting the front end of Nukagas limousine off the ground and bending the cars frame.