Don Chan13 November 2014:
Scan Eagle. UAV.
Test and Evaluation Command, JGSDF.
About 15:00, during test flight, engine stopped.
Switched to manual control, and crash-landed, at emergency landing area, Hijuudai exercise range, Ooita Prefecture.
Damaged body, camera, and wings.
http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=soc_30&k=2015031600155
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20150316k0000e040184000c.html
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/kyushu/news/20150316-OYS1T50067.html
Don ChanWednesday, 11 March 2015:
J-7. Single-seater.
PLAAF.
According to photos of debris/wrecks at crash site and witnesses:
Crashed, at He Bei Province, Cang Zhou City, Hai Xing County, Xin Ji Town, Song Wang Village.
One pilot ejected.
http://hkm.appledaily.com/detail.php?guid=53525962&category_guid=10793096&category=instant&issue=20150313
http://www.huizhou.cn/news/ms/201503/t20150313_996730.htm
Don Chan28 February 2015:
The aviation museum at Tao Yuan Airport, Tao Yuan County, Taiwan, opened on 31 October 1981.
It closed on 31 October 2014, will be demolished, and replaced by airport terminal 3.
From 28 February 2015, the 18 aircraft preserved at the museum, in three batches, will be transferred to and stored at Tao Yuan ROCN air base.
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/1243859
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/paper/858837
http://www.nownews.com/n/2015/03/03/1619476
Don Chanhttp://www.chingchic.com/history-of-raf-kai-tak.html
Scans of the English book “History of RAF Kai Tak, 1927 – 1971”, by G.L.D. Alderson, published in 1972.
A lot of gory details and photos.
Maybe if I’m very bored sleepless, then I’ll gawk at the scans, and compile out the accidents.
After all, some of the fatalities were buried in Hong Kong, and this HK Government site
http://www.hkmemory.hk/
has details and photos of their graves.
Don Chan2 March 2015:
E-2C.
JASDF, based at Naha AB, Okinawa Prefecture.
16:55, 150 km west of Okinawa Island, during training flight, pilots discovered crack on cockpit left side window.
After 25 minutes, emergency landed, at Naha AB.
Don Chan17 February 2015:
OH-1.
634.
Chuubu Houmen Helicopter Tai [Middle Army Helicopter Unit], Chuubu Houmen Koukuutai [Middle Army Aviation Group], JGSDF, based at Camp Yao, Yao City, Oosaka Prefecture.
13:40, at Nanki Shirahama Airport, Wakayama Prefecture, during landing and take off training, engine trouble, and crashed into sea, southwest of airport.
100 m from coast, Sai’no, Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture.
Two crew not wounded, and swam to coast.
After 30 minutes, rescued by firefighters.
Pilot: Major Maekawa Haruyuki.
52 years old.
Co-pilot: Captain Yaguchi Hiroyuki.
40 years old.
Helicopter sank soon.
Witnessed by people fishing at Isogi Park, Shirahama Town, and they called police.
At airport, training from 13:00 to 15:00.
13:45, airport control tower and management learnt helicopter floating on sea, two crew swimming to land, and scrambled Wakayama prefecture disaster prevent helicopter.
JCG would search and recover accident OH-1.
JGSDF grounded 37 OH-1.
http://www.agara.co.jp/modules/dailynews/article.php?storyid=289438
To practise emergency, shut down one of two engines, and continued to fly with one engine, but the other engine also stopped.
To not endanger environment, emergency landed on sea, near Hachijuuiso, 1.5 km southwest-west from airport.
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20150221k0000e040172000c.html
2015/02/21:
Civil salvage ship with crane, recovered wreck.
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASH2K4VD7H2KPTIL00Y.html
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20150217-00050098-yom-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20150217-00000549-san-soci
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20150218k0000m040096000c.html
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20150217k0000e040189000c.html
Don Chan12 Feburary 2015:
OH-6DA.
211-8781.
211th Kyouiku Koukuutai, JMSDF, based at Kanoya JMSDF AB, Kagoshima Prefecture.
After 11:05, during navigation training, became missing, and disappeared from radar, near JR [train] Masaki Station, Ebino City, Miyazaki Prefecture.
Three crew were two instructors and one student.
Pilot was Lieutenant Commander Yamamoto Tadahiro [39 years old].
Other crew were Lieutenant Commander [40s years old], and Petty Officer 2nd Class [20s years old].
Pilot had 2,500 flight hours.
Other Lieutenant Commander had 4,000 flight hours.
9:19, took off, at same AB.
11:05, final radio contact, when crew reported location, above Isa City, Kagoshima Prefecture.
Also reported because bad weather above Izumi City, Kagoshima Prefecture, changed course.
From Isa City, course more east, to above Ebino City, and Kobayashi City, Miyazaki Prefecture.
11:30, scheduled to return to AB.
Had enough fuel to fly until 12:20.
Isa City weather was cloudy and light rain.
Wind speed, 1.2 m, from northwest.
Some thunder.
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20150213k0000e040205000c.html
February 13, 7:00, SDF, Kagoshima Prefecture Police, and Miyazaki Prefecture Police continued search.
9:20, JASDF helicopter discovered wreck.
Ground crew confirmed wreck and bodies.
Two instructors’ bodies below or in fuselage.
One student’s body thrown from fuselage.
Crashed into mountain, near Takish*ta Mountain peak [785 m], Ebino City, Miyazaki Prefecture.
500 m west from Yatake Mountain peak.
1 km northeast from temporary command post at JR [train] Masaki Station, JR Hisatsu Line, JR Kyuushuu.
Locals claimed they saw an helicopter flew low, and heard explosion different from thunder.
http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/kanoya/butai/other/index.html
211 ATS
http://flyteam.jp/news/article/46313
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20150213k0000m040080000c.html
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20150212k0000e040193000c.html
http://news.biglobe.ne.jp/domestic/0212/mai_150212_9213112867.html
Don Chan14 January 2015:
F-15.
201st Hikoutai, 2nd Koukuudan, JASDF, based at Chitose AB, Hokkaidou.
11:07, before take off, for training, front landing gear broke.
At one of two runways.
The west runway closer to base.
At final check point, where engines increased thrust to check instruments.
Landing gear broke near wheels.
Aircraft could not move, and nose descended 30 cm.
17:00, removed by crane, and delivered to hangar.
One of flight of two.
No person wounded.
Did not affect civil flights at New Chitose AP.
Second training flight of the day of that aircraft.
First training flight from 8:00 for one hour was normal.
JASDF related person commented electronic, engine, and hydraulic malfunctions happened, but front landing gear break was rare.
Same Koukuudan about 40 F-15 grounded for checks.
Some would be checked by manufacturer.
Others resumed training flights from January 15 morning.
http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye2394883.html
News video.
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASH1G5749H1GIIPE01N.html
http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/donai/585867.html
http://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/storyid-237324-storytopic-1.html
http://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/150114/afr1501140028-n1.html
http://www.tomamin.co.jp/20150121025
Don Chanhttp://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/hofuminami/papercraft.html
For fun, official papercraft (paper models) of JASDF aircraft, including F-2A and F-35A.
Don Chan6 January 2015:
F-2.
3rd Koukuudan, JASDF, based at Misawa AB, Aomori Prefecture.
During training flight, dropped panel, from right wing, bottom side.
Attached by screws.
Aluminum.
Length, 55 cm.
Width, 14 cm.
Thick, 2 mm.
Weight, 380 g.
10:00, took off, at Misawa AB.
After one hour of training above Pacific Ocean, landed.
During after-flight check, panel missing.
JASDF searched in base and Misawa City below flight course, but did not find panel.
http://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/150106/afr1501060024-n1.html
http://www.sankei.com/politics/news/150106/plt1501060039-n1.html
Don Chan] 22 December 2014:
] JH-7 Flounder. (Rumour: JH-7B.)
] PLAAF or PLAN.
http://www.militaryy.cn/html/88/n-125788.html
.
http://news.wenweipo.com/2014/12/31/IN1412310065.htm
Test pilots’ names.
LU Zhi Yong.
Lu was a J-15 test pilot, and landed on an aircraft carrier.
WEN Zhi Ping.
Aircraft was JH-7A during test flight before delivering to PLAAF.
According to witnesses, after the aircraft crashed, two traffic cops from the bridge and villagers risked explosion and fire, rescued the front-seat pilot, then the back-seat pilot.
] 4 March 2014:
] WZ-10.
http://www.militaryy.cn/html/88/n-125788.html
According to witnesses, the unconscious front-seater was about 30 years old, and the conscious back-seater was about 50 years old.
The back-seater urged the villagers to rescue the front-seater.
The front-seat canopy jammed and couldn’t open, but the villagers’ brute force opened it, and rescued the front-seater.
They already phoned the emergency and police hotlines, but possibly the ambulance and police drivers were unfamiliar with the rural roads, and taking a long time to arrive at the crash site.
The villagers worried about the front-seater’s life, and decided to rush him to an hospital by a villager’s private car.
Don ChanEarly December 2014:
500MD. ASW helo.
ROCN.
During pre-flight check, tail rotor hit pilot’s head.
Helmet cracked, and pilot unconscious.
(Context implies tail rotor was rotating.)
As at 28 December, pilot recovering at Zuo Ying Branch of Kao Hsiung Armed Forces General Hospital.
http://806.mnd.gov.tw/
http://806.mnd.gov.tw/english/index.php?page=traffic
On 13 December, ROC Defense Minister visited him.
Pilot was Lieutenant Commander with family name Wei.
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20141228/532048/
http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20141228002204-260407
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/1191755
Don Chan24 December 2014:
Two YS-11.
9041.
9043.
JMSDF, based at Atsugi JMSDF AB, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Afternoon, final flights to Shimofusa JMSDF AB, Chiba Prefecture.
Formal retire on December 26.
Preserve for spare parts for JASDF.
JASDF has 13 aircraft.
1971 December, four YS-11 first assigned to 61st Koukuutai, JMSDF, at Atsugi.
Fiscal year 2013, two retired.
Four aircraft total flight time, about 160,000 hours.
Delivered 1.2 million people and 20,000 tons cargo.
1962, first flight.
182 aircraft built.
2006, retired from domestic regular routes.
2011 January, retired from JCG.
http://www.kanaloco.jp/article/82041/cms_id/118096
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20141225k0000m040089000c.html
Don ChanIt’s one of the news article writers’ guesses. 8D
I just translated it, and appropriately emphasised it as unofficial rumour.
To paraphrase President Ronnie Raygun, “I only know what other people told me.”
Don Chan22 December 2014:
JH-7 Flounder. (Rumour: JH-7B.)
PLAAF or PLAN.
About 3:30 PM, crashed, at a wheat field, in a farm, west of Sha Wang Bridge (Sha Wang Da Qiao), Wei Nan City, Shaan Xi Province.
Nose and tail of wreck, were 500 m apart.
Engine(s) detached from fuselage.
Two pilots didn’t eject, and killed.
About 4 PM, four fire trucks and more police officers arrived.
(Amongst the crash site photos, one pilot’s body… was on the ground, near the nose, beside a cop wearing a white cap and yellow vest with white stripes.)
About 25 km northwest of crash site, is China Flight Test Establishment (Zhong guo Fei Xing Shi Yan Yan Jiu Yuan), Yan Liang District, Xi An City.
Rumour: during test flight, engine or mechanical malfunction, RTB, attempted emergency landing at farm, collided with ground, and disintegrated.
http://chinesehln.com/picture-detail-id-287829.html
http://zongyizixunwang.appspot.com/yuleqnews20141222_053470.html
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