What the records say
- When
- 5 Apr 1964
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 35.55° N, 139.43° E
- Description
- US Marine Corps aircraft crashed in a residential area in Tokyo, Japan
- Deaths
- 4
- Injured
- 32
1964 Machida F-8 crash
1964 military aviation accident
The 1964 Machida F-8 crash occurred on 5 April 1964 in Machida, Tokyo, Japan. A United States Marine Corps Vought RF-8A Crusader, BuNo 146891, which was returning as one half of a two-plane flight of Crusaders from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa to its home base of Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, suffered a mechanical malfunction.
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