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22-05-2025
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ASDF Confirms 2 Members Dead after Plane Crash in Aichi
News from Japan May 22, 2025 22:07 (JST) Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Air Self-Defense Force said Thursday that it has confirmed the death of two members who were on a T-4 training plane when it crashed into a lake in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, last week. Capt. Takuji Ioka, 31, and 1st Lt. Shota Amitani, 29, of the 5th Air Wing went missing after the crash on May 4. Since body parts were found around the site two days later, the ASDF has been working to identify them. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Kyodo News
15-05-2025
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Search continues for 2 missing crew of crashed Japan ASDF trainer jet
KYODO NEWS - 10 hours ago - 13:02 | All, Japan Japan's Self-Defense Forces on Thursday continued searching for the two missing crew members of an Air Self-Defense Force training jet that crashed into a large reservoir in central Japan the previous day. The ASDF identified the two as Capt. Takuji Ioka, 31, and 1st Lt. Shota Amitani, 29. Amitani was sitting in the front seat, and Ioka was in the back, although it is unclear who was maneuvering the aircraft at the time as both seats have controllers, it said. Broken pieces of the aircraft and helmets believed to have been worn by the two men have been found at the reservoir, known as Lake Iruka. SDF members began the day's search in the morning using boats and a helicopter, while local police and rescue workers, including divers, joined the effort. On Wednesday, the T-4 jet disappeared from radar two minutes after it departed Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture around 3:06 p.m. en route to a base in southwestern Japan. The investigation into the case is expected to face difficulties as the aircraft had no flight recorder. The ASDF has grounded other T-4 jets for the time being. The crashed aircraft, which belonged to Nyutabaru Air Base in Miyazaki Prefecture, was manufactured 36 years ago. The ASDF has 197 T-4s, which are domestically made, two-seat aircraft used primarily to train fighter jet pilots. They are also used by the force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team. Related coverage: Defense force trainer jet with 2 crew crashes in central Japan lake Bag with inflammable tube falls from U.S. forces chopper in Okinawa
Miami Herald
15-05-2025
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- 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
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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.
15-05-2025
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Search Continues for 2 Crew Members of Crashed ASDF Plane
Inuyama, Aichi Pref., May 15 (Jiji Press)--The search continued overnight through Thursday for the two missing crew members of an Air Self-Defense Force training plane that crashed in central Japan the previous day. According to the ASDF, the two are Capt. Takuji Ioka, 31, and 1st Lt. Shota Amitani, 29, of the 5th Air Wing, which is based in the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki. The ASDF is working to confirm which of the two was piloting the T-4 aircraft that fell into Lake Iruka in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, while analyzing parts of the plane recovered from around the crash site to determine the cause. On Wednesday, the plane took off from the ASDF's Komaki base in the neighboring Aichi city of Komaki at 3:06 p.m., heading for its Nyutabaru base in Miyazaki. However, it disappeared from radar around 3:08 p.m., about 13 kilometers northeast of the Komaki base. The plane, manufactured in September 1989, showed no abnormalities in a preflight inspection. "I understand that there was no particular problem with the plane," Gen. Hiroaki Uchikura, the ASDF's chief of staff, told a press conference after the crash. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
