TOKYO, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- An F/A-18 fighter jet and a KC-130 tanker plane belonging to the U.S. Marines collided and crashed off Japan's western coast early Thursday morning, with five of the seven crew members still missing, the Japanese Defense Ministry said. One of those rescued ...
Two U.S. military jets have crashed off the coast of western Japan, local media reported on Thursday citing Japanese government sources. The planes, a Marine Corps C-130 and F/A-18 fighter jet, went down off the coast of Kochi prefecture after taking off from Marine Corps Air Station Iwa...
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. ...
Japan plane crash: What happened? "They were amazing, I had to leave my bag behind with passports and everything. But within a few minutes, 370 people got off the plane with only two exits," he said. "Me and my family got together last night, and today we realised we probably ...
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. ...
said a crack in a small pinion gear inside the Osprey’s transmission may have been started by weak spots in the metal used to manufacture that part. The crack led to cascading failures across the aircraft’s drive system, causing the Osprey to invert and crash off the coast of Japan. ...
Onodera visited the local government office in Saga, in Japan's southwest Sunday to apologize for the helicopter crash, which killed both its crew members and led to a private house being burnt to the ground. The incident sent ripples of fear, concern and panic across the nation amid rising...
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...
Safety Analysis of Dual Purpose Metal Cask Subjected to Impulsive Loads due to Aircraft Engine CrashIn Japan, the first Interim Storage Facility of spent nuclear fuel away from reactor site is being planned to start its commercial operation around 2010, in use of dual-purpose metal cask in the...
The C-2A twin-propeller plane came down about 500 nautical miles (925 kilometers) southeast of Okinawa as it was bringing passengers and cargo from Japan to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, the Navy said in a statement. The cause wasn’t clear but the crash would be investigated, ...