ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 137046
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| Date: | Thursday 14 April 2005 |
| Time: | c. 13:50 |
| Type: |  Mitsubishi MU-2S |
| Owner/operator: | JASDF |
| Registration: | 73-3229 |
| MSN: | 461/929 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1987 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Mikagura-dake -
 Japan
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Niigita (13:03) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Crashed into a snow covered mountainside, 0,5 miles nort-nortwest of the summit (1,387m), close to Aga, near the border between Fukushima and Niigata Prefectures. Wreckage was spotted at 15:15. It was on a training sortie to locate an orange and white parachute placed in a forest about 0,5 miles from the crash site. It appeares likely that whilst turning at low speed and low level for a run into the target parachute, the Mu-2 hit the side of the mountain and slide down it for around 300ft (90m).
Sources:
Scramble 384
AL 462
AFM JUN 2005, p74
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Jun-2011 08:50 | harro | Added |
| 08-Dec-2016 17:53 | wf | Updated [Total fatalities, Location, Source] |
| 08-Dec-2016 17:53 | wf | Updated [Location] |
| 13-Mar-2019 18:37 | TB | Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Aug-2021 16:24 | TB | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Narrative] |
| 02-Aug-2021 16:25 | TB | Updated [Date] |
| 21-Sep-2021 12:59 | TB | Updated [Time, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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