Senior vice defense minister Makoto Oniki is visiting Aomori to bring local officials up to date on the incident.Īomori Airport resumed operations on Wednesday morning after the emergency landing prompted the closure of the airport's lone runway, affecting several domestic flights, according to the prefectural government. military and the Defense Ministry over the matter. Shingo Mimura told reporters Wednesday the prefectural government will make "a serious protest" to the U.S. F-16 fighter jet belonging to Misawa Air Base at an airport in Aomori Prefecture on Dec. Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows a U.S. Murphy also said it was regrettable the wing had initially said the pilot jettisoned the tanks in an unpopulated area. "What I can tell you, we have a very thorough investigation that we have started on the incident," he said. We are very thankful that it didn't injure anyone." Timothy Murphy, the vice commander of the 35th Fighter Wing of the Misawa Air Base, told Fukaura Mayor Mitsuru Yoshita as they met Wednesday, "We regret very much that the fuel tank came into the town. forces in Japan that the dumping was regrettable.Ĭol. fighter jets in the northeastern prefecture in recent years.Ĭhief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said in a press conference Wednesday the Japanese government has conveyed to the U.S. The tank dumping follows a number of similar incidents by U.S. Police spotted bits of metal and liquid believed to be fuel about 20 to 30 meters from some homes in the town of Fukaura with a population of some 7,600, which is about 30 kilometers away from Mt. The jet landed at Aomori Airport at around 6:10 p.m.
The 35th Fighter Wing of the Misawa Air Base said in a statement that an F-16 fighter jet experienced a problem during a flight and its pilot jettisoned the fuel tanks in an unpopulated area close to Mt. Kishi told reporters Wednesday he takes the matter "very seriously" and instructed ministry officials "to work closely with the United States to collect and analyze information to ensure that all possible measures are taken." forces Tuesday to investigate the incident, officials said. 1, 2021, from a Kyodo News plane shows the place (circled in red) where a fuel tank was found near a residential area in the Aomori Prefecture town of Fukaura, northeastern Japan, after being dumped by a U.S.
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