What the records say
- When
- 24 Aug 1938
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 35.58° N, 139.72° E
- Description
- aviation incident in Japan
- Deaths
- 85
- Injured
- 190
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1938 Tokyo mid-air collision
Aviation incident in Japan, 1938
On August 24, 1938, an Imperial Japanese Army Air Force flying school Mitsubishi Ka 1 military trainer collided in midair with a Japan Air Transport Fokker Super Universal airliner over the Ōmori district of Tokyo, Japan. Both aircraft were destroyed, killing the crew of both planes – two on the military trainer and three on the airliner.
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