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| Date: | Thursday 5 October 1967 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Beechcraft H18 |
| Owner/operator: | Japan Air Lines (JAL) |
| Registration: | JA5137 |
| MSN: | BA-745 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Murayama-shi -
 Japan
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Yamagata |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
On October 5, 1967, a Japan Airlines Beechcraft H18 aircraft was training at low altitude on the Mogami River near Yamagata Airport when it caught its main landing gear on a rope used to guide ferryboats on the river and crashed. All four crew members on board were killed.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
ABC (Madrid) 6 October 1967, p61
https://flyteam.jp/photo/3527548
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Oct-2008 00:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 09-Apr-2011 10:28 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 09-Apr-2011 10:53 | TB | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 10-Apr-2011 08:35 | TB | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 20-Apr-2016 18:02 | TB | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 12-Mar-2024 19:07 | yukipara3 | Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Mar-2024 09:54 | Anon. | Updated [Total fatalities, ] |
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