ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 185487
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| Date: | Thursday 17 March 2016 |
| Time: | 12:25 |
| Type: |  SZD-50-3 Puchacz |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | JA50KM |
| MSN: | B-1084 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Ajikidai, Sakae town, Chiba prefecture -
 Japan
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Ohtone Aerodrome |
| Ohtone Aerodrome | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A glider crashed into two residences in Sakae town, Chiba prefecture, where about 1700m south of the departure aerodrome after about 15 or 20 minutes of flight. It was a training flight. Both of the trainee and the instructor received fatal injuries. There were no personal injuries on the ground. An eyewitness said that the glider was spinning like a falling leaf. The airworthiness of the accident glider had been checked on 6th January 2016 by a member of the gliding club who owns the sailplane, though it had experienced submergence in a flood caused by a remarkable rainfall in Kanto and Tohoku regions, September 2015.
Ohtone Aerodrome is located at 35/51/32N, 140/14/28E with field elevation 14ft.
The weather data at Narita International Airport (about 15km southeast of the accident site):
RJAA 170330Z 09004KT 320V130 CAVOK 18/01 Q1021 NOSIG RMK A3015
(03:30UTC/12:30JST, wind 090 degrees 4 knots, wind direction variable between 320 and 130 degrees, ceiling and visibility OK, temperature 18 degree-Celsius, dew-point 1 degree-Celsius, QNH 1021hPa/3015INS, no significant change.)
Sources:
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp:443/hl?a=20160317-00000040-mai-soci
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp:443/hl?a=20160317-00000034-asahi-soci
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp:443/hl?a=20160317-00000060-jij-soci
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp:443/hl?a=20160317-00050101-yom-soci_
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp:443/hl?a=20160317-00000542-san-soci
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp:443/hl?a=20160317-00000107-mai-soci
http://web.archive.org/web/20160322020339/http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20160317/k10010446711000.html
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00319156.html]
http://web.archive.org/web/20160322214625/http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye2728261.html
https://www.planespotters.net/photo/381632/ja50km-private-pzl-bielsko-szd-50-3-puchacz
Media:
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Mar-2016 13:24 | isamuel | Added |
| 17-Mar-2016 13:33 | isamuel | Updated [Other fatalities] |
| 17-Mar-2016 16:38 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 17-Mar-2016 20:35 | isamuel | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Mar-2016 07:30 | isamuel | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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