A wave of shock, anger and anxiety spread in Japan after a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey crash-landed Tuesday night off the coast of Okinawa Prefecture, in the first major accident in the country involving the tilt-rotor aircraft.

The accident has reinforced a view held by many in Okinawa that the aircraft is accident-prone, and increased their resentment toward the central government for forcing the prefecture to host the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan.

People voiced anxiety in the city of Saga, which has been asked by the central government to host the aircraft when the Ground Self-Defense Force procures them, as well as in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which hosts a Marine base that Ospreys frequently fly in and out of.