“It was so loud that I couldn’t sleep”, Osprey land on MCAS Futenma just before 11:00 p.m.

“It was so loud that I couldn’t sleep”, Osprey land on MCAS Futenma just before 11:00 p.m.

On June 2 at 10:32 p.m. in Ginowan City, a vertical takeoff and landing transport MV-22 Osprey lands at Futenma Air Station while the noise therefrom reverberates.


June 4, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo

On June 2 several vertical take-off and landing transport MV-22 Osprey landed on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (MCAS Futenma) in Ginowan City after 10:00 p.m., which falls outside the time period allowed under aircraft noise abatement measures (the noise prevention agreement).

According to noise measurements taken by the Okinawa prefectural government and Ginowan City’s government, at 10:31 p.m. that night at Nodake 1 Public Hall, which is north of MCAS Futenma, noise reached 87.7 decibels. Ginowan City residents made eight complaints to the city government, leaving comments such as “It was so loud that I couldn’t sleep”.

It is said that 80 decibels is equivalent to the interior of a pachinko parlor. On the night of June 2, after 10:30 p.m. three Osprey landed at Futenma Air Station, and just before 11:00 two more Osprey landed successively. At 10:52 p.m. at Futenma Junior High School, which is north of the air station, noise was recorded at 85.7 decibels.

Ginowan City’s base damage phone number 110 received comments such as “I wish they wouldn’t fly so late”, and “I want to request that flights after 10:00 p.m. be stopped”.

(English translation by T&CT and Erin Jones)

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