The United States has more than 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan, many in the strategically important southwestern Okinawan islands, amid growing Chinese military assertiveness around nearby Taiwan. The crash happened just before 3 p.m. (0600 GMT), with witnesses saying the a...
In the novel Firefox Down, it is revealed the remaining prototype's fuel lines were ruptured in the dogfight that concluded the previous novel and the aircraft crash-lands in Finland. One of the plot lines of Firefox Down is the race between the Soviets and Western Intelligence to recover th...
In November, an Osprey aircraft almost crashed at the Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico. No one sustained injuries in the latest incident, which was apparently caused by a metal weakness that is believed to have led to a separate deadly crash in Japan last year that left eight people dea...
Aug. 12, Japan:Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into a mountain, killing 520 of the 524 aboard. Highest death toll in a single-plane crash in aviation history. Dec. 12, Gander, Newfoundland:a chartered Arrow Air DC-8 bringing American soldiers home for Christmas crashed on takeoff. All...
In recent years, experts have wondered if the gearbox is to blame. The 2023 Japan crash cause wastraced earlier this yearto a crack in a gearbox part and pilot error, because the pilot ignored warning signs that the aircraft was failing. ...
Richard Mallory Allnutt's aviation passion ignited at the 1974 Farnborough Airshow. Raised in 1970s Britain, he was immersed in WWII aviation lore. Moving to Washington DC, he frequented the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum, meeting aviation legends. After grad school, Richard worked ...
U.S. Forces Japan said in a statement that it was thankful for the quick response of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force "as they immediately responded in the search and rescue operation." "The circumstances of the mishap are currently under investigation," it added. ...
Both pilots in this incident managed to eject to safety and were rescued by a U.S. military chopper. The crash of the F/A-18 aircraft, a multirole combat jet, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft and known colloquially as the "Hornet," also comes on the heels of a U.S....
All 379 people aboard the Japan Airlines Airbus A350 had a miraculous escape after it erupted in flames following Tuesday's crash with a De Havilland Dash-8 Coast Guard turboprop shortly after landing at Haneda International Airport. ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command is weeks away from deploying its fleet of CV-22B Osprey aircraft for counter terror operations after grounding its crews in the wake of a fatal crash last November in Japan, its top comman