Governor of Japan's southernmost Okinawa prefecture called for the Japanese central government to abort a plan that allowed the deployment of MV-22 Osprey aircraft at a U.S. base on the island, local media reported Tuesday.

The tilt-rotor aircraft was set to be deployed at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the prefecture.

The aircraft is capable of both vertical takeoff and landing, and short takeoff and landing. It is a multi-mission aircraft developed to fill multi-service combat operational requirements. However, it suffered a series of fatal accidents during test flights.

The accidents had caused concerns among local governments and residents over the presence of the aircraft in such a densely populated district.

Hirokazu Nakaima told Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto that his prefecture can not allow the United States to deploy the aircraft at the base in the city of Ginowan as scheduled before the causes of the accidents are determined, Kyodo News reported.

Local media reported earlier that the United States planned to first station several of the planes at the base for trial of three months and finally expanded the number to 24.