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Dal Japan Times di oggi.
A FedEx cargo plane with a pilot and co-pilot aboard
crash-landed and burst into flames early Monday
morning at Narita International
Airport,
east of Tokyo,
killing both crew members, according to airport
and police officials.
Transport ministry and other investigators believe
the accident was partly caused by strong winds
buffeting the MD-11 aircraft as it attempted to land
at around 6:50 a.m. Winds of up to 72 kpm per hour
were blowing in the vicinity of the airport at the
time.
The aircraft, Flight 80 from Guangzhou, China, had
flammable liquid aboard, according to the Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry. It
took about two hours for firefighters to extinguish
the blaze.
Two men were rescued from the cockpit at around 8
a.m. but were confirmed dead, the Chiba prefectural
police said. The police are trying to confirm the
identities of the two, who are believed to be Kevin
Kyle Mosley, 54, the pilot, and Anthony Stephen Pino,
49, the co-pilot — both U.S. citizens.
It is the first fatal aircraft accident at Narita
airport since it opened in 1978, except for a fatal
air turbulence accident that occurred during flight,
according to the airport operating company.
Video footage showed the plane touching down on its
rear wheels and its nose hitting the runway as if
slammed down.
The plane bounced and its left wing hit the ground,
bursting into flames. The plane then flipped over and
veered off the runway with flames exploding from the
center of the fuselage.
A local observatory said it had notified airline
companies
and related entities
of the possibility of the occurrence of wind
shear — a condition in which wind speed and
direction suddenly change — after the weather
became rough on Sunday evening.




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