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Miami Herald
15-05-2025
- General
- Miami Herald
Japan searches for two missing crew members after training jet crash
May 15 (UPI) -- The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force agency continued its search Thursday for two crew members and their plane that crashed Wednesday somewhere in the country's Aichi Prefecture. The T-4 training aircraft involved had reportedly only been airborne for two minutes after it departed Komaki Air Base for Nyutabaru Air Base in Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture when it disappeared from radar, as per Air Self-Defense Force officials, who also say that no emergency signals of any kind had been detected before the jet crashed. Witnesses purportedly saw sparks coming from a jet near the crash site, and heard a loud boom when it crashed. A search of a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture has turned up parts of the missing T-4 as well as a part of a helmet, but so far there haven't been any signs of the pilots, identified as Capt. Takuji Ioka and First Lt. Shota Amitani. The aircraft, constructed in 1989, was not equipped with either a voice or a flight data recorder, which the Japanese Defense Ministry said could complicate its investigation of the situation. Copyright 2025 UPI News Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Japan searches for two missing crew members after training jet crash
May 15 (UPI) -- The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force agency continued its search Thursday for two crew members and their plane that crashed Wednesday somewhere in the country's Aichi Prefecture. The T-4 training aircraft involved had reportedly only been airborne for two minutes after it departed Komaki Air Base for Nyutabaru Air Base in Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture when it disappeared from radar, as per Air Self-Defense Force officials, who also say that no emergency signals of any kind had been detected before the jet crashed. Witnesses purportedly saw sparks coming from a jet near the crash site, and heard a loud boom when it crashed. A search of a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture has turned up parts of the missing T-4 as well as a part of a helmet, but so far there haven't been any signs of the pilots, identified as Capt. Takuji Ioka and First Lt. Shota Amitani. The aircraft, constructed in 1989, was not equipped with either a voice or a flight data recorder, which the Japanese Defense Ministry said could complicate its investigation of the situation.
14-05-2025
- Politics
ASDF Training Plane Crashes into Central Japan Lake
News from Japan May 14, 2025 17:42 (JST) Nagoya, May 14 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese Air Self-Defense Force training plane boarded by two ASDF members crashed into Lake Iruka in central Japan on Wednesday. Whether the two crew members survived the crash is not immediately known. The T-4 aircraft disappeared off the radar while flying near the city of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, where the lake is located, soon after leaving the ASDF's Komaki base in the neighboring Aichi city of Komaki shortly after 3 p.m. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, the top Japanese government spokesman, said that the plane crashed soon after taking off. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
