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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,
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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
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