Tachikawa air disaster

When

18 Jun 1953

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

35.73° N, 139.46° E

Description

aviation incident that occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, 1953 when a United States Air Force (USAF) Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed three minutes after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board

Deaths

129

Injured

1

Cause

engine failure on take-off

1953 U.S. Air Force plane crash in Japan

On June 18, 1953, a United States Air Force (USAF) Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed three minutes after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board. At the time, the crash was the deadliest in aviation history.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Tachikawa air disaster: A United States Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes just after takeoff from Tachikawa Airfield near Tokyo, Japan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Первая авиакатастрофа с более чем 100 погибшими: в Татикаве (Япония) после отказа двигателя разбился самолёт Douglas C-124A-DL Globemaster II ВВС США”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アメリカ空軍のC-124輸送機が東京都小平市に墜落、死者129名（立川基地グローブマスター機墜落事故）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page