20 June 2012:
3rd Koukuutai, 4th Koukuugun, JMSDF, based at Atsugi JMSDF AB, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Four crew members of JMSDF P-3C.
Pilot 1: Chief Petty Officer (23).
Pilot 2: Chief Petty Officer (24).
Communications operator 1: Chief Petty Officer (23).
Communications operator 2: Petty Officer First Class (23).
Drank, drove, and fell off car.
On 2012.08.27, convicted and sentenced for 18 to 30 days of suspension.
News article dated 2012.08.28.
Between 20:00 and 12:00 on 20 June 2012, ate and drank beer, cocktail, and wine, at Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and walked back to base.
In base, to return to dormitory, communications operator 1 (23) drove four-wheel-drive car.
Pilot 1 (23) sat at passenger’s seat.
Communications operator 2 (23) and pilot 2 (24) stepped on rear bumper, and held onto car.
Driver knew the two were on rear bumper, and drove at 20 km/h.
After 100 m, the two fell off.
Ambulance took them to Yamato City hospital.
Heavily wounded: bleeding in the brain, and skull fracture.
Hospitalised until middle July.
http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/20120828/tro12082805050001-n1.html
http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/20120828/tro12082805050001-n2.html
>Sunday, 15 April 2012:
>SH-60J. 8279. #79.
http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=soc_30&k=2012082800689
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/120828/dst12082818250013-n1.htm
2012.08.28:
JMSDF final accident report.
Cause was pilot’s judgement mistake.
Lieutenant Commander [posthumous Commander] Miyanaga Masahiko.
During low pass to farewell JDS Matsuyuki, flew too close to ship.
Co-pilot and other crew members did not warn pilot, was also cause.
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