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The Japan Coast Guard aircraft involved was a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-315Q MPA, manufacturer serial number 656, nicknamed Mizunagi-1 (Japanese: みずなぎ1号), and registered as JA722A. The aircraft was approximately 16 years old, first flying in November 2007, and acquired by the Coast Guard in March 2009. [ 16 ]
The twin-engine, twin-aisle A350 is used by a number of long-haul international carriers. More than 570 of the aircraft are in operation, according to Airbus. ___ Yamaguchi reported from Kyoto, Japan.
The Airbus A350 was landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport when it was in collision with a much smaller plane working for the Japanese coastguard in earthquake relief. Tragically, five of the six ...
On 26 August 1966, Ginza, a Japan Air Lines Convair 880 (leased from Japan Domestic Airlines) yawed left for unknown reasons after the nose lifted up during a training flight at Haneda Airport. Some 1,600 m (5,249 ft) into takeoff, the number one engine struck the runway. The aircraft left the runway and the nose pitched down again.
The crash killed all 15 crew members and 505 of the 509 passengers on board, leaving four survivors. An estimated 20 to 50 passengers survived the initial crash but died from their injuries while awaiting rescue. The crash is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history [1] and remains the deadliest aviation incident in Japan. [2]
The massive Japan Airlines plane collision is the ‘first real test for a modern aircraft’ under distress and Airbus’s new lightweight carbon-fibre fuselege may have protected passengers from ...
The aircraft's port engine caught fire, causing it to crash into a residential area near present-day Eda Station (Kanagawa). The crash killed two young boys, aged 1 and 3, and injured seven others on the ground, several seriously. The boys' mother, Kazue Doshida, suffered severe burns and died in 1982 from complications related to her injuries.
Japan and the United States on Wednesday signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons ...