TOKYO, April 18 (Xinhua) — A lightweight plane belonging to the Japan Coast Guard crashed within the southwestern prefecture of Oita, injuring the crew members onboard, native media stated Tuesday.
Coast guard officers had been quoted as saying the propeller-driven plane, which took off from Kitakyushu Airport at 9:15 a.m. native time, crashed right into a subject at 10:00 a.m. within the metropolis of Usa in the identical prefecture throughout a coaching train.
The two members onboard, the airplane’s captain and a trainee, sustained non-life threatening accidents within the crash and had been each taken to hospital, in keeping with the native hearth division.
The single-engine plane could be seen in aerial footage taken by public broadcaster NHK the other way up within the subject, with the airplane’s wings, tail and undercarriage intact.
An investigation has been launched into the reason for the crash.