Don Chan>Friday, 9 June 2017:
>C-2.
>78-1205. #205. C/N 005.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/jnn?a=20170620-00000060-jnn-pol
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170620/k10011023481000.html
http://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/170620/afr1706200003-n1.html
2017/06/20:
JASDF announced investigation result, and cause is pilot’s operation mistake.
Aircraft has a “kansei kijun souchi”, or “inertial reference device”, that understands the acceleration, attitude, and position of aircraft.
Before this device was working, pilot moved aircraft towards taxiway.
Device misunderstood aircraft as moving faster than its actual speed, and to avoid aircraft from roll over, its protecton function automatically limited steering of landing gear brakes and wheels.
Pilots could check cockpit display to confirm device was working or not, but because crew were training emergency take off, pilots did not check cockpit display.
Current manual does not warn case of moving aircraft before device is fully working.
JASDF will improve operation procedure manual, and pilots’ education.
Don ChanFriday, 9 June 2017:
C-2.
78-1205. C/N 005.
JASDF, based at Miho AB [Yonago Kitarou AP], Tottori Prefecture.
6:40, while turning right from taxiway to runway, brake and steering malfunctioned.
Aircraft could not turn, overran across runway, and stopped on grass.
One of two C-2 scheduled for simulating movements until take-off, but not actual take-off, on same day.
Six crew not wounded.
Runway closed three hours, until C-2 towed to air base.
http://www.yonago-air.com/eng/flight#item3571
http://www.yonago-air.com/flight#item3571
Three ANA flights from or to Haneda AP, Toukyou, cancelled.
2017 March, three C-2 assigned to Miho AB.
2018 September, scheduled to begin operations.
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASK692RLBK69PTIL002.html
http://www.asahicom.jp/articles/images/AS20170609001284_comm.jpg
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=196019
http://www.fukuishimbun.co.jp/articles/-/203757
http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/list/201706/CK20170609020002…
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/osaka/news/20170609-OYO1T50016.html
Don Chan>6 April 2016:
>British Aerospace U-125. BAe-125-800FI.
>49-3043. 043. C/N 258242.
>Callsign Trier 43.
http://www.asagumo-news.com/homepage/htdocs/news/newsflash/201706/170608/17060804.html
Sunday, 2017/04/16:
At Iruma AB, Dasaitama Prefecture, memorial ceremony for the six crew.
And new “flight safety memorial plate” or “flight safety prayer plate” to remind current and future pilots and crew members.
Don Chan(“This is fun.”
– Dr Leonard “Bones” McCoy)
Thursday, 1 June 2017:
KF-16D x 6.
20th FW, ROKAF, based at Seo San AB, South Chung Cheong Province, South Korea.
During flight from South Korea to Alaska, USA, for Red Flag Alaska, aerial refuelling trouble.
Diverted to and, about 9:00, landed at Yokota AB, Toukyou, Japan!
Red Flag Alaska was from 25 May to 1 July.
1 June, 5:30, in South Korea, six KF-16 took off.
Colour photos for serial numbers:
https://matome.naver.jp/odai/2149628516964877301
https://twitter.com/i/moments/870070112815947776
https://twitter.com/SSR91231399/status/870065255736426500/photo/1
https://twitter.com/s2f5g4/status/870857876897583104
https://twitter.com/DontendonY/status/870200571197767682
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBOSzVKUIAARD73.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBOSzVLUQAAFQJc.jpg
92-032.
92-036.
93-103.
93-108.
93-115.
93-120.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37flDocFcm8
2017/06/03:
Six ROKAF KF-16D and some USAF KC-135 departed Yokota AB.
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/hito_gata_21/28773469.html#28773469
2017/06/03:
In addition to six KF-16D, at least one ROKAF C-130 also departed Yokota AB.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/06/01/0200000000AEN20170601004900315.html
https://news.nifty.com/article/world/china/12181-180091/
http://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_international/articles/000102083.html
http://www.sankei.com/world/news/170602/wor1706020044-n1.html
Don ChanMonday, 29 May 2017:
YS-11.
52-1152. #152.
JASDF.
http://www.sanin-chuo.co.jp/news/modules/news/article.php?storyid=565384179
#152 final flight, from Miho AB, Tottori Prefecture, to Komaki AB [Nagoya AP], Aichi Prefecture.
Will preserve in Komaki AB hangar, and lend to Aichi Prefecture, when Aichi Koukuu Museum, at Nagoya AP, opens in 2017 November.
http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/politics/article/20170529000120
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20170530/k00/00m/040/038000c
http://www.sankei.com/west/news/170529/wst1705290073-n1.html
After final flight, #152 retire ceremony, at Komaki AB.
Between 1962 and 1973, 182 YS-11 built.
JASDF had 13 YS-11, and nine remain.
Eight are active for airport check flights.
#152 was the only remaining JASDF YS-11 for personnel transports amongst air bases.
After 52 years, from 1965, total flight time was 23,872 hours.
Don ChanSunday, 28 May 2017:
YS-11.
52-1152. #152.
JASDF.
Final display flight, at Miho AB air show, Tottori Prefecture.
http://www.sanin-chuo.co.jp/news/modules/news/article.php?storyid=565384179
Don ChanMonday, 15 May 2017:
LR-2 Hayabusa.
Nose 23057. Nose 057. Tail JG-3057. C/N FL-677.
Hokubu Houmen Koukuutai, JGSDF, based at Okadama AP, Sapporo [City], Hokkaidou.
11:23, took off, at Okadama AP, for medevac mission.
Flight plan was land at 11:50 at Hakodate AP, Hokkaidou, and pick up doctor(s) and patient, and take off at 12:20, and land at 12:50 at Okadama AP.
11:47, before landing at Hakodate AP, last radio contact with ATC.
11:48, lost radar and radio contact, about 18 NM or 33 km west of Hakodate AP.
Instrument flight during low visibility that already grounded fire department and police helicopters.
From 12:45, JASDF and JMSDF aircraft began SAR near last location in JASDF radar.
2017/05/16, dawn, fire department, police, soldiers, and civilian hunters mobilised for ground search.
11:06, UH-60 of Akita Kyuunantai, JASDF, found wreck on slope, 3 km east of Hakamagoshiyama Mountain, upstream of Todagawa River, near Hokuto [City], Hokkaidou, 25 km west of Hakodate AP.
Four crew killed, bodies recovered.
Pilot: Captain Takamiyagi Isao.
53 years old.
Co-pilot: Major Yanagida Tomonori.
41 years old.
Aircraft mechanic: Staff Sergeant Okaya Takamasa.
42 years old.
Avionics mechanic: Sergeant Tamaki Hironobu.
28 years old.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170517-00050053-yom-soci
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/jnn?a=20170517-00000046-jnn-soci
https://this.kiji.is/237521975320608770
JMOD announced accident aircraft normally had flight recorder and voice recorder, but on accident day, because electric system malfunctioned, flight recorder was not in aircraft.
Last radio contact between ATC and pilot was maintain altitude 1,070 m, but last radar contact was altitude 900 m, and crash site was altitude 300 m.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170517-00010002-bfj-soci
Patient was 50+ years old man at Hakodate Goryoukaku Hospital, and needed treatment at Sapporo Medical University Hospital.
Distance was 300+ km, and by car, needed 4+ hours.
18:20, patient arrived by ambulance.
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20170517/k00/00m/040/129000c
http://www.nikkansports.com/general/news/1824294.html
Last scheduled maintenance was 2017 middle-April.
Last flight on 2017/05/13, from Nakashibetsu AP [Nakashibetsu Town, Hokkaidou] to Okadama AP, was normal.
11:00, local condition at Hakodate AP, cloud ceiling was 500′, and passed instrument flight condition minimum 200′.
11:47, ATC instructed aircraft to maintain 3,500′ for enter landing route, and pilot answered understood.
After one minute, aircraft disappeared.
http://flyteam.jp/registration/23057/photo?sort=phototime&order=desc
Colour photos, before accident.
http://www.asagumo-news.com/homepage/htdocs/news/newsflash/201705/170518/17051802.html
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170516-00000005-hokkaibunv-hok
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170516-00010006-doshin-soci
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170515/k10010982531000.html
http://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/170516/afr1705160027-n1.html
http://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/kisha/2017/05/16.html
http://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/kisha/2017/05/16.pdf
http://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/news/2017/05/15c.html
http://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/news/2017/05/16g.pdf
Don ChanThursday, 13 April 2017:
JASDF announced because runway maintenance at Misawa AB, Aomori Prefecture, from early May to 5 July, Misawa AB aircraft would detach to Hyakuri AB, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Miyajima AB, Miyagi Prefecture.
130 soldiers, about 15 F-2, and some T-4 detach to Hyakuri AB.
25 soldiers and about seven T-4 detach to Matsushima AB.
http://www.asagumo-news.com/homepage/htdocs/news/newsflash/201705/170508/17050804.html
Don ChanMonday, 27 March 2017:
C-2.
#203.
ATLA (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency), JMOD.
ATLA announces XC-2 development ended, and allowed JASDF to equip C-2.
2002 March, JDA [now] and Kawasaki signed contract for XC-2.
XC-2 first aircraft did first flight on 2010/01/26.
P-1 mass-production version first aircraft 5503 did first flight on 2012/09/25, and accepted by JDA on 2013/03/26.
C-2 mass-production version first aircraft will be tested at Gifu AB, Gifu Prefecture, and assigned to Miho AB, Tottori Prefecture.
Don Chan>Monday, 30 January 2017:
>F-15DJ.
>92-8097. #097.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170318-00089111-okinawat-oki
2017/03/17:
JASDF announced landing gear axle cracked and broke.
Landing gear reguarly disassembled and checked every 2,400 flight hours.
Accident aircraft was 530 hours after last check.
After this accident, revised to every 200 hours, electricity would pass through axles to check for cracks.
Don ChanFriday, 3 March 2017:
MH-53E.
111th Koukuutai, JMSDF, based at JMSDF Iwakuni AB, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Final 11 MH-53E retire ceremony, attended by 200 personnel.
Final flight was 20 February 2017.
By late March 2017, replaced by 10 MCH-101.
http://mainichi.jp/articles/20170304/ddl/k35/040/635000c
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20170304-OYT1T50109.html
http://www.zakzak.co.jp/society/politics/news/20170303/plt1703031700001-n1.htm
Don ChanWednesday, 7 December 2016:
T-4.
46-5725. #725.
Blue Impulse, 11th Hikoutai, 4th Koukuudan, JASDF, based at Matsushima AB, Miyagi Prefecture.
Retired, after 20 years, since Blue Impulse replaced T-2 by T-4 in 1996.
Kawasaki built 212 T-4.
Blue Impulse version T-4, 11 were new built, two were converted from trainer version T-4.
Blue Impulse version has:
Bird strike resistant canopy glass and HUD.
Low altitude warning system.
Part of fuel tank converted to smoke oil tank.
Rudder action angle increased.
Blue Impulse had nine T-4.
Six for acrobat flight.
Three as spares, or for maintenance rotation.
On 2011/03/11, East Japan Earthquake, six operatonal T-4 and one spare T-4 were deployed to Asahiya AB, Fukuoka Prefecture, for Kyuushuu Shinkansen (Kyuushuu bullet train line) opening ceremony on 2011/03/12.
One T-4 was at Kawasaki factory, Gifu AB, Gifu Prefecture, for IRAN.
One T-4 was flooded at Matsushima AB.
#804 [25-5804].
Lucky, eight of nine Blue Impulse T-4 avoided earthquake and tidal wave.
Converted #787 [06-5787] and #790 [06-5790] had replaced #725 and #804.
As 2017 began, Blue Impulse T-4 list:
#720, 46-5720, built, crashed in 2000.
#725, 46-5725, built, retired in 2016.
#726, 46-5726, built, active.
#727, 46-5727, built, crashed in 2000.
#728, 46-5728, built, active.
#729, 46-5729, built, active.
#730, 46-5730, built, active.
#731, 46-5731, built, active.
#745, 66-5745, built, active.
#804, 26-5804, built, flooded in 2011.
#805, 26-5805, built, active.
#787, 06-5787, converted, active.
#790, 06-5790, converted, active.
https://news.nifty.com/article/economy/economyall/12203-62506/
Don ChanThursday, 19 January 2017:
WZ-10.
31st Group Army, PLA, based at Tong An, Fu Jian Province.
About 7 PM, crashed, at Xia Zhu Wei Village, Jie Shan Town, Quan Gang District, Quan Zhou City, Fu Jian Province.
Two crew killed.
Pilot was Major ZHANG Hao.
34 years old.
Joined army in 2001 September.
Wife was eight months pregnant.
Co-pilot was Captain WANG Xiao Dong.
28 years old.
Joined army in 2008 September.
Had fiancee.
At least four houses damaged.
At least three villagers wounded and rescued.
http://hk.on.cc/cn/bkn/cnt/news/20170122/bkncn-20170122184010682-0122_05011_001.html
http://mil.firefox.sina.com/17/0120/15/U95ERKLOMA6WDIJZ.html
http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2017-01-20/doc-ifxzuswq2940466.shtml
Don ChanFriday, 2 December 2016:
At Gifu AB, Gifu Prefecture, Defense Minister Inada Tomomi inspected the stealth fighter X-2 Shinshin.
She also flew in the transport aircraft C-2.
http://www.sankei.com/politics/news/161202/plt1612020050-n1.html
Don ChanThursday, 1 December 2016:
JMOD announced winner of next “flight check aircraft” competition as USA Textron Citation 680A, to replace U-125 and YS-11FC.
By Heisei 32 [2020], acquire up to three aircraft.
Competitors included Canadian Bombardier Challenger 650 and French Dassault Falcon 2000S.
http://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/news/2016/12/01a.html
http://www.sankei.com/politics/news/161201/plt1612010025-n1.html
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