U.S. warplanes seen flying low over Yakushima airport runway

Wednesday 29th July, 04:10 AM JST

The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.

› Login to comment

Latest 15 of 18 Total Comments Show All

OssanAmerica at 10:35 AM JST - 29th July

Although I admit maybe it's technically correct, it just seems so strange to call anything other than bombers and fighters "warplanes".
timorborder at 10:46 AM JST - 29th July

Appears to have flown over? It's either they confirmed their identity as US or they didn't. A military fixed-wing prop narrows it down to a C-2 Greyhound, E-2 Hawkeye or a P-3 Orion.

What about C-130s?
Klein2 at 11:44 AM JST - 29th July

Maaaaveriiiiiiick!!
sensei258 at 12:13 PM JST - 29th July

Klein2 - Funny! Let's buzz the tower.
nandakandamanda at 01:14 PM JST - 29th July

NK special ops preparing for the invasion.
M51T at 02:02 PM JST - 29th July

Didn't know they had prop-driven stealth technology. But boy it worked.
Monoflow at 06:04 PM JST - 29th July

What else can you expect from the self-named world-leader... I assume it was something like let's make some noise in the hood...
USNinJapan2 at 07:53 PM JST - 29th July

timorborder

You're right, a Herc would fit the bill, but given the location of Yakushima I didn't think that USAF/USMC would be the likely culprit.
sharky1 at 09:10 PM JST - 29th July

Don't know who it was so they blame the US. Too funny!!!
ptolemy at 12:09 AM JST - 30th July

What else can you expect from the self-named world-leader... I assume it was something like let's make some noise in the hood...

Hey, the story is about suspected US aircraft, not Chinese or Russian. Stick to the topic.
northlondon at 12:26 AM JST - 30th July

Looks like sensei258 is right up Klein2's tail....
Fadamor at 02:49 AM JST - 30th July

"Tens of meters above the runway." Sounds like an aborted landing in the March incident. In the June incident, they don't have a sighting at all, just "similar aircraft noises". Gotta love those aviation audio experts at an airport that closes nightly at sundown!

"Ichigo-san, you hear that? Sounds like a plane approaching. Hmmm... can't tell the model of the aircraft, but it has a distinctive "American" sound to it, don't ya think?"

Ichigo: "'American sound'? The only sound this one is detecting is the sound of his friend over-indulging on osake again."
caribjustice at 02:52 AM JST - 30th July

Would be great if the report could have included, "U.S. officials were unavailable for comment" or "U.S. officials state that they are investigating the incident." Then we could have some comments from the U.S. side of this...
OssanAmerica at 06:26 AM JST - 30th July

Don't know who it was so they blame the US. Too funny!!!

"A fixed-wing propeller plane which appeared to be a U.S. military aircraft" usually means the plane type and/or markings were identified as US military.
USNinJapan2 at 02:59 PM JST - 30th July

Japanese articles report that the aircraft in question is suspected to be a C-130. Still not confirmed that it's a US bird although it's highly doubtful that the JASDF or JMSDF would use one of their closed civilian airports for after-hours training...