Tokyo officials have asked the US military to investigate an incident in which an American fighter jet dropped a fuel tank that landed in a residential area.
Suspicious metal objects were found in the coastal town of Fukaura, with a population of some 7,600 people, earlier this week. The debris, which landed in the center of the town, was later confirmed to be parts of an F-16 fuel tank.
On Tuesday, the Misawa Air Base in the north of Japan’s main island of Honshu confirmed there was an emergency with a US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon. According to the military, two external fuel tanks were dropped from the jet before it landed at Aomori International Airport. Officials from the base initially claimed the tanks fell in a nonresidential area.
The pilot wasn’t injured, they said, but the plane remained on the airport’s single runway for a while, disrupting commercial flights.
The Japanese Defense Ministry called on US forces to conduct a proper investigation into the incident, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday. Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said the US military had been issued a request to ground the fighter jets until they are confirmed safe for operation.
The governor of the Aomori prefecture, Shingo Mimura, said his government would also make “a serious protest” to the US military over the incident. “I am taking this very seriously, seeing as it involved a heavy volume of flammable fuel and the possibility of a major disaster,” he stated.
In a meeting with the Fukaura mayor, a commander from the Misawa Air Base, Colonel Timothy Murthy, acknowledged that the tank “regrettably” landed in the town, saying, “We are very thankful that it didn’t injure anyone.” He added that “a very thorough investigation” had been launched.
Objects that were about 1 meter long (3.5 feet) were found by police near Fukaura town hall, and some 20 to 30 meters from residential houses, after scared locals reported smelling oil and hearing thunderous sounds. What was later identified as aviation fuel was reportedly splattered all over the road. The debris was confirmed to be bits of just one fuel tank, with the landing location of the other one still unknown.
It’s not the first fuel dumping incident by US fighter jets in the northeastern prefecture. Previously, F-16s dropped tanks into a lake and the sea, raising safety concerns among the locals.
source: RT
Împotriva articolelor redacției noastre, persoanele nemulțumite pot formula Contestație în termen de 10 zile de la publicarea articolului, la judecătoria Orășenească nr. 1 München Bayern Deutschland, in conformitate cu Legea federală Germană. Considerăm că nu se pot formula acțiuni la instanțele din România deoarece nici o persoană care activează în trustul nostru nu poate fi extrasă de sub jurisdicția federală germană. Considerăm că redacția noastră nu răspunde în fața autorităților din România ci doar celor federale sau civile germane. deoarece legea română nu are efecte de extraneitate asupra redacției chiar dacă subiectul știrilor face obiectul unor evenimente sau persoane din România și sunt scrise în limba română. Limba română nu este izvor de extraneitate a legii.
absolvent WEB DESIGN Academia Britanică de Comunicare Iasi - absolvent COMUNICARE IN AFACERI Academia Britanica de Afaceri si Comunicare -absolvent JURNALISM EDITORIAL - London School University - 2019 inscris la echivalare diploma la Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara - absolvent studii de Drept Universitatea Europeană Drăgan, cursuri in Drept la Universitatea de Vest Timisoara, absolvent studii de proiectare, pastor coordonator in Biserica Protestanta Evanghelica,
Android Developer pe Google Play și plugin developer la Oxwall, creator de teme Wordpress și Oxwall, operator Wordpress, Drupal, Oxwall, Osclass, Moodle, tehnologii HTML și PHP
Officials argue people of color and the homeless get ticketed more often than whites Officials in Seattle, Washington made it legal on Thursday to ride a bicycle without a helmet, insisting that non-white people and the homeless get disproportionally punished for the offense. People of color, Native Americans, and the homeless have been “bearing the […]
A meta-analysis suggested mandating social distancing was ineffective during the first wave of the pandemic Compulsory social distancing measures, touted to the public as necessary to fight back the spread of Covid-19, did not have any significant effect on mortality rates during the first wave of the disease, a new study said. Policymakers could have […]
A military official in Tehran has warned that aggressors will pay a “heavy price,” in response to numerous reports that Israel was seeking US help, or at least approval, in preparing potential strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Since talks to breathe new life into the nuclear pact struck between Iran and world powers in 2015 […]
