The cargo compartment can accommodate loads ranging from 27 pallets to a mix of 17 pallets and 75 passengers.

Marines on Friday searched for the pallet — a 4 ½-foot cube ... to the Okinawa Defense Bureau and the U.S. military because the weight of this cargo is very dangerous,” the spokesman said.

A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey transport aircraft has accidentally dropped a cargo pallet weighing 400-450 kilograms into waters near Ie Island in Okinawa Prefecture, prefectural officials said Tuesday.

No damage to ships or others has been confirmed. The 1.3-square-meter cargo pallet, loaded with meals, was to be lowered to the U.S. military's auxiliary airfield on the island. At a press ...