Three Planes Missing
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, May 11. Three of five Sabre jet fighters of the Japanese Air Defence Force were listed as missing today from a formation flight over Western Japan. The defence agency said the body of one of the three missing pilots bad been recovered from a mountain in Shimane prefecture. The planes are believed to have crashed into the mountain on their way back to the Tsuzuki air base on Japan’s main southernmost island of Kyushu. The cause of the triple .crash is being investigated.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31985, 12 May 1969, Page 13
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