AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Military officials are investigating a test V-22 Osprey aircraft after it suffered up to $1 million in damage last month while flying through a thunderstorm, officials said.

The Defense Contract Management Agency was delivering an Air Force version of the helicopter-airplane hybrid to Edwards Air Force Base in California from Amarillo when the engine intakes sucked in pieces of ice from a thunderstorm. That damaged compressor blades, said James Darcy, a spokesman for the Maryland-based V-22 Joint Program Office.

The crew landed in Prescott, Ariz., as a precaution, but the engines did not stall and the crew never lost control. Damage to the craft's engine and tail section was estimated to cost anywhere from $200,000 to $1 million, Darcy said.

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