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Dec 5, 5:38 AM EST TOKYO (AP) -- An outing of luxury sportscar enthusiasts in Japan ended in an expensive freeway pileup - smashing a stunning eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes likely worth more than $1 million together. Police say they believe the accident Sunday was touched off when the driver of one of the Ferraris tried to change lanes and ...
Popular tags: Accidents, Japanese, Transportation
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer, Saturday Oct 22, 2011 9:34:20 EDT The past 12 months were good ones for Navy safety. But the Navy’s top safety official warns that in a future widely expected to see funding shortfalls, it’ll be more important than ever to practice sound risk management — and for key personnel to voice concerns to commanding officers ...
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By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has grounded its F-15 fighters for the second time in three months after a fuel tank and parts of a mock missile fell off a jet on a training mission, officials said Saturday. Japan Air Self-Defense Force officials said that the flight suspension involves all missions except emergency scrambles and wil ...
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Sep 29, 1:51 AM EDT TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese airline says one of its jets nose-dived and rolled almost upside down earlier this month because the co-pilot hit the wrong controls while trying to open the cockpit door so the captain could return from a restroom break. Two flight attendants were slightly hurt and four passengers got airsick when the All Nippo ...
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from Brig. Gen. Matthew H. Molloy 18th Wing commander, 8/18/2011 KADENA AIR BASE, Japan It is with great sadness that I inform you of the loss of two of our talented Shogun Airmen. Monday night, SSgt Ronald Dayce, a member of the 18th Component Maintenance Squadron, and SrA Kristie Marie Arroyo, a member of the 909th Air Refueling Squadron f ...
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Stars and Stripes, August 19, 2011 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Kadena Air Base will hold memorial services next week for two airmen killed in an off-base motorcycle collision Monday. Senior Airman Kristie M. Arroyo, 24, a member of the 909th Air Refueling Squadron who was from Fort Bragg, N.C., will be memorialized Monday at 3 p.m. at the air base’s Chapel 1, a ...
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Stars and Stripes, August 17, 2011 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Kadena Air Base confirmed Wednesday the identities of two airmen killed earlier this week in an off-base motorcycle collision. Staff Sgt. Ronald G. Dayce, 25, of the 18th Component Maintenance Squadron, was driving, with Senior Airman Kristie M. Arroyo, 24, of the 909th Air Refueling Squadron, as a ...
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Stars and Stripes, August 15, 2011 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Two airmen were killed in a motorcycle wreck on a main Okinawa highway Monday night, according to the 18th Air Wing at Kadena Air Base. Both were riding on the same motorcycle when it collided with a Japanese motorcyclist around 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of routes 58 and 23 near the front gate o ...
Popular tags: Accidents, Death, Okinawa, 18th Wing